Tom, you said this afore.   
      
    TW> Yuo are devoted to is because you have a large supply of suitable   
    TW> Hard Drives. Until recently I have had some fairly spare drives but they   
    TW> wwere to small, 40 and 80 gig, for much use.   
      
   	These "might" be large enough for your use. My C:\ HD here is holding only   
   29.8 GBs. See what you have in yours, Acronis will only clone used space. My   
   C:\ is 500 GBs but I use USB HDs of 160 GBs and it all works out.   
      
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