Les Mikesell wrote: > If you know how to reinstall the multi-boot setup, you should be able to > use clonezilla-live to clone specific partitions and either reinstall > others or use a file oriented copy technique. And if you have another > machine or disk to hold the image you can make a compressed image file > copy as a backup in case your drive dies before you decide how you want > to set up the replacement. Yes, thanks for all your help. I have decided to use clonezilla, as I discovered on further reading about Acronis WD version that "clone" for them means "clone a whole disk"; and I couldn't find any firm statement that this operation actually left anything on the source disk. (They use the term "transfer" throughout.) I found the Acronis documentation hard to follow; but to be fair Clonezilla documentation is fairly obscure too. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland