Lachlan
Unfortunately, it was Ghost 2001 that caused the 'meltdown' - hence this idea. Despite running a full Scandisk prior, mid-way through the first use, the program stopped and a prompt to enter a DOS command appeared [an error with Scandisk]. As DOS is dutch to me - that was that, finito. Obviously, I'm extremely reluctant to try Ghost again.
The hope was that after removing the original drive I could insert the new one, install Windows etc and build up the same sofware and data [over time] to broadly mirror the original drive. I'm not sure from your reply if this is possible and still maintain use of both HDD's on an ['at will'] inter-changeable basis throughout?
I'd appreciate any further clarification - as you can probably tell I'm no expert :o
Rgrds
CB