A positive experience

Because of strange sounds emanating from my system HDD, I bought a SATA disk in preparation for the possible disastrous loss of my C partition (my fundamental reason for using TIHome). After physically installing it, connecting it to the SATA-2 connector on the motherboard, formatting it as NTFS in Windows and changing the SATA-2 connector status to "ON" in system setup, I consulted Grover H's compilation of accumulated wisdom (7.) for what to do next. Following his recommendation to recover to, rather than clone, a new disk, I created and validated an image of the C partition (ignoring the two hidden partitions installed by DELL) on an external disk using 2010 6053 running in Windows. Still in Windows, I then recovered C and MBR to the new disk, turned off and unplugged the computer (XP Prof, SP3), removed the system disk connector from the SATA-0 slot on the motherboard and replugged and rebooted. The system came right up and I'm now using the restored version of C on the new disk to create this posting. Incidentally, the 500GB SATA was cheaper than buying Shadow Protect. In my case, TIHome worked flawlessly and I ain't changing.