Sometimes I amaze myself with stupid actions. I believe, were I to want to visit Federick, MD, I would start walking east.

I stopped the process. Temporarily unrigged the DVD and connected that SATA cable to the new drive, leaving the old drive on its cable. I was worried that I might need the DVD to boot should I run into problems. That may well be the case, but I have now figured that I can alway reconnect it if I have to. DUH!

:roll:

The system booted normally; PC11 was invoked and ordered to clone the old disk to the new. It is already past the point at which I stopped it, and it had been running steadily since mid-day yesterday!!!

If all goes as I pray I shall have that system back on line shortly.

Sometimes I look in the mirror and ask, "just who in hell IS that guy, anyway?"