I am looking to create an exact copy of my computers primary drive (the smaller) onto the same machine's second hard drive (the larger of the two). I do have access to both of these drives with my laptop that is connected through a hub (both drives are mapped). The reason is, I am loaning the computer to my brother for 6 months and I know he will screw it up. I just want an easy way to get it back to the way I have it now. What programs or methods do you recommend? Aaron

Not sure why you mention a hub and drive mapping with two local drives. These don't matter if doing drive to drive in the same system. Symantec's Ghost works fine for this. My suggestion is do a drive to drive copy. You will have to boot up on a boot diskette containing Ghost. You can resize during the xfer to use all of the larger drive. My suggestion would then be to remove this ghosted drive [after testing that it works in the primary drive slot !] and put it back in when you get your laptop back.

No need to use the Laptop. From what you say, you have a C-Drive 'set up and running' with Operating System and Applications. You also have a D-Drive that can be 'wiped clean' or partitioned [with enough space in the blank partition to accomodate the size of the C-Drive]. If this is so, boot to the GHOST floppy disk and 'GHOST' [not image] the C-Drive to the D-Drive or Partition on D-Drive [E-Drive or whatever drive letter it is identified as under Ghost].