Old disk, an 80 gig Maxtor, in two partitions of ~ 40 gig. New HD, a 250 gig Maxtor, with a C partition of 60 gig. All partitions on both disks are NTFS format.
The Ghost floppy is the same I've used for some time. I think it was made from a Ghost 2003 program. The within Windows attempts using Ghost were made with Ghost 2003. The floppy has succeeded with XP in the past.
Conan, your idea is a good one, but I didn’t explain myself completely in my first post. Apart from wanting to run the bigger HD, I want a backup copy. I've been in the habit of making a spare copy of my operating system and keeping it stored well away from the computer. This saved me when we received an email from an address we recognised that contained a nasty that literally wiped out our system. (The anti virus people hadn't found a cure for that particular nasty when we got it.)
I was able to get everything up and running again in 20 minutes simply by swapping the dead HD for my spare and copying our data files across from the separate backup disk.
Jhieminga, I think that if I did as you suggest, it overwrites the existing Windows installation completely, so I'd have to reinstall all my software, and if I was to do that, I'd be far better off doing a clean install, which I'm trying to avoid.
Saab Dastard, I do have access to a second computer, but know nothing about image files. I'd appreciate a lesson if you could find the time. It sounds like it might fix my problem.
One thing I haven't yet tried is disabling Zone Alarm before doing the clone. Could that have any effect?