Among the many tools out there for cloning drives and performing full-system backups, one came to my attention for being both free (and open source) and powerful: Clonezilla, a product of the Free ...

Clonezilla is a bootable CDROM designed for partition backup and restoration. Unlike SystemRescueCD, Clonezilla Live doesn't contain an array of utilities, rather, it is a single, focused tool.

I'm waiving the white flag. I've spent over 24 hours trying to do this and it just ends in failure every time. Frys had the Corsair Force GT 60GB for $102.99 with a $20 MIR, so I bit. Figured things ...