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To: steve harris who wrote (76098)	7/2/2011 8:47:28 PM
From: ILCUL8R	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110653

Steve, Over the last 2-3 years I have read many messages about Acronis, including tales of woe when it misbehaved. For the last several years I have used XXCLONE, some extra old PATA IDE hard drives, and a swap rack. The file by file method of cloning was all I needed, simple, foolproof, never missed a stitch. The cloning I did today using Acronis used two 40 GB WD drives. Each was checked for bad sectors and none were found. The target drive was formatted into one partition. Acronis was invoked and it did its thing. However, near the end of the procedure I had to tell it 3 times to ignore a bad sector warning to get it to finish. So far, after a rudimentary trial of several pieces of software on the cloned drive, all seems OK. Acronis may have found a new convert and friend. Dick Dick