Hi and welcome to Sharky forums. I use Norton Ghost to do exactly as you want to do. I like to clone from within a DOS session, that way I'm sure there aren't any background tasks running that might be writing to disk. Once you install Ghost, you can create a bootable DOS floppy that calls in the Ghost GUI -- you don't have to mess around with any DOS commands. Second, I don't clone until I feel comfortable with the most recent changes and everything is stable.