I used drive image to copy my C partition from my old drive to the newly created c partition on my new 250GB drive. Worked a treat in just a few minutes and saved me loads of time reinstalling everything.
If you want to run a partition on a new drive with another drive letter, you need Partition Magic from Powerquest to move files around. Otherwise entries in the registry do not point to the new drive. Of course, if you are a crack, you could change all registry entries by hand, but I wouldn't dare doing it.
Drive Image only makes bit by bit copies of a partition to a backup medium or another drive. Only in the case you use the same drive letter, it would work that way.
Example: You copy drive D: to drive E:. After copying is finished, rename D: to F: and E: to D:
Good to know, but maybe i should explain a bit more.
i currently use ghost for cloning partitons, it works fine. The problem was when i wanted to clone more than one partition at the same time. Usually i just clone disk-to-disk, this works provided the source & destination are the same size.
But i have 2 drives that are unequal in size (source 160 Gb, destination 120Gb)
However i used partition magic to make sure the parititions created are exactly the same size. So i wanted to take 3 of the partions that were on the 160GB and copy them to the 120Gb. The remaining one would get put onto another drive.
Now with ghost i can only clone one partition at a time. TO do more requires writing a ghost script file which for some reason won't work. Complains that the destination partition is not the same size, (partition magic says they are identical) but if the same operation is issued form windows it works albeit only one partition at a time.
I was wondering whether driveimage allows me to clone several paritions at once so i can let the clone process work uninterrupted. The clones are to a backup drive that is removed from the system so drive mapping is not an issue.