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I created a partition on an 1.5 TB external USB drive and cloned the 320 GB internal HDD of my notebook onto the partition. To create a partition the same size as the HDD in my notebook, I had to calculate the binary size as reported by Windows. I'm hoping someone can help be find a better way...

Because the clicks are uniform, the issue may be a bad sector in the MBR area... it can't read past the allocated point. It sounds like the heads are looking for something. Did you check the MBR? Try installing the drive as a slave (jumper settings?) -> see if it's recognized in the BIOS. If...

Thanks to all for the valuable help. I will try them all, since I have Registrar Registry Manager and am able to quickly purge all the footprints from the registry after a so-called "uninstall." The EaseUS app sounds too good to be true. I can't wait to try it out and am downloading it now.

I have Vista Home Premium on a HP laptop and would like to perform a HDD image backup, like I do on my Desktop PC, running Win 7, which lets me save disk images on an external USB HDD that is 320 GB (matching 512 bytes/sector). Western Digital offers a bare-bones edition of Acronis, which I...