Cloning fiasco

Hi,



I got my Z VPCZ1290X couple of days ago.



Did the following:

1- Changed the raid to two 256MB C & D drive

2- Made recovery DVD



For backup, as per pyr0 advice (thanks again) I decided to go for eSATA



1- Got a OWC Slim ExpressCard to eSATA Adapter

2- 256GB Crucial RealSSD C300 (can you use it in my desktop as well)

3- OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini external enclosure

4- Paragon Hard Disk Manager Pro 2010 for cloning



The cloning of about 68GB took 1:25 minutes with a read of 231 and write of 84



I clone it sector by sector although I couldnt find an option to disregard empty sectors in Paragon options.



While I was working on something else, the Paragon finished the cloning and booted up with the external hard drive still attached to the eSATA.



Window 7 Ultimate 64 bit made a system reserve on the external drive once the C drive was booted up.



When I detached the eSATA the Window 7 wouldnt boot up anymore. The only way it would boot up was with the external hard drive attach to it! I assume because of the system reserve



I tried to repair it but Window 7 stated that my Window 7 is NOT genuine MS software. Thats interesting because I had bought it from Sony USA.



I tried the Paragon recovery CD to clone the external drive back to the C drive. After, another 1.25 minutes it failed to boot up because of hardware change.



Interesting that I was trying to protect myself now I have to use DVD recovery.



I like the Paragon especially Alignment tool and Backup Capsule its like recovery partition.



However, for cloning it is way too slow and dangerous.



Any suggestion?



Now Im looking at Miray HDClone Pro. Anyone has used it here?

My other choice is Acronis True Image Home 2011 although I prefer not to go that way. I bought the ATI 2010 (doesnt work well with SSD) and a little more than a month 2011 came out!



Any other choice besides Ghost?



Thanks

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