Thanks Gary, et al.

I've got a copy of BootItNG, but have never run it. That would be great.
Or the utilities that come with the new drive, if they can do it (as Richard
suggested).

So let me be very specific he if I currently have a 40 GB HD, divided
into two partitions, I can image it over to a new 80 GB drive, and be able
to select the new partition sizes? No, that doesn't sound right -
imaging should only make an exact copy of the original drive. So maybe
what happens is it images over the 40 GB, and leaves the rest of the drive
(the other 40 GB) unused) Then later I could resize the partitions to
use the entire drive?

(I don't want to reinstall *anything* - I just did that awhile ago, and
don't want to go thru it all over again)!


Gary S. Terhune wrote:
BootIt NG (BING) includes an Image and/or partition copying program that
works
just fine.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP for Win9x

"Bill in Co." wrote in message
...
Am I correct here in assuming that one CAN (simply) replace their
original
bootable HD, without reinstalling Windows and all the programs all over
again, by either using Ghost, or (maybe?) the HD manufacturer's utilities
that come with the new drive? (I'm thinking of Western Digital here)

Do the drives have to be the same size for Ghost imaging? Hopefully
not!!!

The more I think about this, I think it would have to be done with Ghost,
or
something like that, to prevent reinstalling everything all over again.
I
doubt if the HD manufacturer's utilities would be enough.