Hi Simon,

Well, as I said, it more curiousity than anything. I find that reading sales stuff for products like this these days, basic questions like this aren't answered. They seem designed to let the reader jump to his own conclusions.


>Hi Jim
>
>I have identical drives at present but I could try your test when I have a chance on another drive I have which is not identical.
>
>Simon
>
>>Hi Simon,
>>
>>Really just curious here...
>>
>>Have you done the operation between two HDs of different sizes/makes/models?
>>
>>Everything being "identical" can be surmised from a Explorer list, but that would only be on the logical level.
>>
>>I understand the definition of an "image copy" is a byte-for-byte copy and in such a case I really don't know if it can be done between drives of different internal formats.
>>
>>cheers
>>
>>
>>>Hi Jim
>>>
>>>I think it is doing a drive image because it can repartition drives while copying. I have taken the copied drive and booted from it and everything is identical to the drive I copied.
>>>
>>>Simon
>>>
>>>>I guess another question I have is this doing a glorified xcopy or a true image of the disk? Any idea?
>>>>
>>>>>Hi Jim,
>>>>>Just in case you were interested, I checked this product out and really liked it. The only problem I could find is that it does not support cloning dynamic disks. I had to use Ghost 2003 for that capability.
>>>>>
>>>>>tracy
>>>>>