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"Press any key to reboot" does nothing

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I'm using True Image 9.0 in a Dell workstation with XP Pro SP3. I need to clone my 500-GB drive to a 1-TB drive, but with differently proportioned partitions. I set it to create the 3 partitions I wanted in my blank drive, and it told me I'd have to reboot once for each partition. I rebooted the system the first time, and it ran through a bunch of checks and analyses, then said congratulations you've succeeded, press any key to reboot. No keys or key combinations I could think of would reboot the system (not even Esc or Ctrl-Alt-Del). I waited 5 minutes than powered down and restarted. The new drive was still unpartitioned and blank. So I did it again with the same result, even after waiting half an hour for some progress. How do I get it to work properly?

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If you are cloning with such an old version of ati, then you are going to get on your clone what you have on your source disk. A better method for you would be do a full disk backup and then restore each partition. If you do a manual restore, you can set the amount of space on the atarget drive to allocate to the partition to be restored.

I'd use the boot CD to do the restore. If you start the restore from within win, it will have to reboot into linux anyway so you might as well boot up with the bootcd and leave the win operating system out of the backup operation.