I used this method to clone my XP SP2 HDD, and it worked perfectly. I moved from a 250 gb to 500gb Hitachi SATA deskstar. It worked very well, and took about 2 hours and 20 minutes to complete.
I used an Ubuntu 8.10 (beta) CD. Instructions were clear and results have been great.
For the unallocated section left over, I just formatted it as another "drive" with the XP drive management stuff.
Thanks very much for the instructions.. saved me the purchase of Ghost or another backup software.
I had tried HDClone but couldn't get it to work ( no mouse control when booted into HDClone, and the fixes that I found didn't overcome the problem)
Thanks again.
David Evans
London, Canada