EV>Tom,   
   EV>My first try using Acronis TI making a clone of my Vista notebook to   
   EV>the bigger drive in the adapter, I thought would work as I watched   
   EV>it progress, but it didn't.   
      
   EV>After it completed and I turned off the computer, I turned it back on   
   EV>and momentarily saw a Black Screen with some writing about Acronis on   
   EV>it, and then the pc started again- POST first then the screen that   
   EV>says Loading OS, and that repeated the POST-Loading OS sequence over   
   EV>again about 3 times until I turned it off.   
      
   EV>Then I put the bigger drive in and the BIOS appeared and asked if I   
   EV>was wanting to use the Vista OS, and I agreed that was what I wanted   
   EV>to use.   
   EV>But after I left the BIOS it wouldn't BOOT so I am going to try another   
   EV>Clone session but leave the bigger HDD in the adapter and turn it on   
   EV>again to see if that Black Screen with the word Acronis needed to do   
   EV>something like finalize the HDD.   
      
   EV>Here we go loop-a-de-loop.   
   EV>Thanks for suggesting I should Clone instead of Backup and then change   
   EV>HDDs.   
      
   EV>One thing I didn't expect was as it was doing the Clone it increased   
   EV>the size of the 3 partitions on the new HDD, where I wouldn't have to   
   EV>use Disk Management to resize them as what I've learned I'd have to do   
   EV>if I Restored a Backup to the new HDD.   
   EV>73   
      
   I am speechless. I have cloned dozens of times with Acronis and never   
   had a glitch. I made the TI Boot disk and always boot to that disk for   
   the Cloning process. Is that what you did?   
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