cloned old disc to new disc (took 24 hours or so).
That is a surprisingly long time!
I recently used Ghost to clone an 80 GB Win XP pro system disk to a new 160GB disk (both IDE) - took all of 35 minutes.
Total time from opening the case to closing it and firing up with the new disk was a shade over one hour. That was an instance of everything just working like it should - which seems to be the exception rather than the norm with PCs!
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