>Hi Rick . Thanks for replying.
>
>If I get a USB drive, would this work.
>How would I GHost my exisitng Drive to the Usb Drive
>If all fails, How would I boot back from the USB drive ?
>If I do manage to boot from the USB drive (And say its called G:), would all the original software not be defaulting to Drive C: ?
>Regards,
>Gerard


It will work. If you're going to use a USB drive you won't need to ghost it, you can just do a raw/native Win8 install (which would probably be the best anyway), and then natively install the software you need one-by-one.

If you still want to do the upgrade on the USB-based copy, google "ghost hard disk software" and you'll find many apps. Here's a "small" list from wikipedia lol:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disk_cloning_software

If you boot from a Linux boot CD/DVD (Ubuntu 12.x, for example), you can open a terminal window and use a command like this:

dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 bs=1M conv=noerror

See the dd syntax on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_%28Unix%29

Hope this helps!