Hope this is not against the rules. Anyway, I had a XP machine with the hard drive starting to go bad. Looked for an easy way to move everything to a new hard drive without having to reload everything. Found that I could use xxclone for 30 days free. Their website is www.xxclone.com. I used this, and after I booted to the new hard drive, all I had to do was go through the xp license activation again, and everything was fine. I was using a valid image of XP Pro on the old hard drive. Sure saved alot of time doing backups, etc.