Tom,   
   My first try using Acronis TI making a clone of my Vista notebook to   
   the bigger drive in the adapter, I thought would work as I watched   
   it progress, but it didn't.   
      
   After it completed and I turned off the computer, I turned it back on   
   and momentarily saw a Black Screen with some writing about Acronis on   
   it, and then the pc started again- POST first then the screen that   
   says Loading OS, and that repeated the POST-Loading OS sequence over   
   again about 3 times until I turned it off.   
      
   Then I put the bigger drive in and the BIOS appeared and asked if I   
   was wanting to use the Vista OS, and I agreed that was what I wanted   
   to use.   
   But after I left the BIOS it wouldn't BOOT so I am going to try another   
   Clone session but leave the bigger HDD in the adapter and turn it on   
   again to see if that Black Screen with the word Acronis needed to do   
   something like finalize the HDD.   
      
   Here we go loop-a-de-loop.   
   Thanks for suggesting I should Clone instead of Backup and then change   
   HDDs.   
      
   One thing I didn't expect was as it was doing the Clone it increased   
   the size of the 3 partitions on the new HDD, where I wouldn't have to   
   use Disk Management to resize them as what I've learned I'd have to do   
   if I Restored a Backup to the new HDD.   
   73   
      
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