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This is interesting because previous version (7.0) of TrueImage did not support external drives (I know for sure - I bought it, it worked drive- to-drive in desktop but refused with external drives on desktop and laptop). And I have not seen a note of any change in that department for the new version. That IS the reason I have not upgraded to 8.0. Ghost, while a bit harder to work with, handled USB-FireWire external drives for a while now. Regarding the NTLDR and such, if you do drive to drive copying with Ghost and reboot to the original drive with the copy still connected, parbreastions on the second drive get buttigned drive letters. And that is stored on the drive. So, when you then swap drives and try to boot from the copy you are likely to have a problem. The boot drive letter is NOT C: Another thing to watch in this case is that if you played with your PATH settings and replaced %SystemDrive% with C: or such, Windows is not gonna load. There you go. Hope that is helpful in some way. Alexei

Hi Alexi -

Download the free trial of True Image 8.0 and give it a go. It works beautifully on external drives. The computer I'm typing on now was cloned very easily using the program.

The only "gotcha" I've experienced in the entire cloning-external drive process (which has absolutely nothing to do with True Image) is that I cannot boot my Vaio V505EX with the external drive connected - it hangs at the POST screen until I unplug the drive. I suppose the problem has something to do with code in the BIOS to support booting from a USB floppy.

Jef