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To: Mike McFarland who wrote (68903)	3/1/2010 2:26:26 PM
From: Bicycle	Respond to of 110653

If you want a quiet drive, take a look at programs that set the drive parameters, such as HDD Scan. Although it's not a big issue for most computer users, those using the drive for entertainment devices like video recorders usually appreciate the reduced sound. Bye4Now, FD. hddscan.com

To: Mike McFarland who wrote (68903)	3/2/2010 1:05:20 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

Well, Acronis True Image WD Edition worked just fine and transferred my system to a new WD 'Caviar Blue' HDD. The only problem was that it took five attempts to get the file from here (kept stalling, first at 30mb, then 50, then 70, etc, annoying). support.wdc.com I haven't checked to see whether Windows XP will still identify that the system as 'genuine', but not sure I care about that much anymore, though XP did check on that when I downloaded MSFT security essentials, so it paid off being 'genuine' that day. $44 for the new drive was well worth the peace of mind --I can play around with different boot managers, add that Mint linux partition finally, and rest easy with my original genuine boot drive tucked away in a static bag. I did not copy the ~5GB original Dell restore partition, cannot imagine ever setting my system back to the factory install anyway, and there's always the backup drive. Just for interest sake, if anybody should ever lose access to their factory OS restore partition, there is this goodells.net Just to be insanely safe, I also have a Macrium image of my boot drive, as well as an NTbackup file, AND DVDs of the image. Maybe that's paranoid, heh. I bought this new drive from newegg and bought this combo newegg.com The tuneup utilities is kind of nifty, I like it too.