scott wrote:
> I don't see any big reasons why it wouldn't survive,

You can't copy the registry files (especially SAM) easily while the system 
is running, for one. Restoring it to the new drive is also tricky for the 
same reason. Basically, you'd have to write your own full-blown program to 
do this. You can't just use the usual backup/restore stuff.

> There are also lots of 3rd party programs that will do 
> this automatically for you, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a freeware 
> one.

The only ones I found that actually work basically take images of the drive, 
not individual files, meaning fragmentation persists.

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