I'm trying to clone a drive I have to a new drive. The old drive has four partitions on it, and I made four partitions on the new drive (let's give Partition 1 (P1), P2, etc..). I copied data from P2-P4 on the old to the new drive. P1 on the new drive should be the same size or a bit greater than P1 on the old drive. It's a Seagate so I'm using its utilities but have been unsuccessful so far. I'm running a Copy Partition utility on it right now, so hopefully it will work? Previously I tried Norton Ghost (but it was screwed up or something, and I couldn't even clone it). I also tried PartitionMagic's copy but that didn't seem to work either, because it doesn't even boot up for some reason (WinXP says it couldn't detect my license when I tried to log in). Any other tips I could try if the current method I'm doing doesn't work? Thanks.

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To copy to the drive you do not make partitions on the new drive to match partitions on the old drive, simply cloned either drive to drive in Ghost, or make image files of all 4 partitions and then restore them to the new drive one by one. Either you don't know how to do this or are using wrong versions of Ghost.

Rich: No, I don't think I knew what I was doing with Ghost. I used an older DOS-based Ghost but that didn't work, and a Windows version wouldn't even run. I settled with Maxtor's MaxBlast software utility that magically worked and copied everything correctly. :)