Issues with external hard drives

I have two internal EIDE HDs. My BIOS is set to AUTO mode for these, which
I believe defaults to LBA mode (Master is 40GB, Slave 120GB) for large
drives. I just bought another 160GB EIDE drive. All three drives live in
removable disk caddies. The intention of this set-up was to give me a bit of
flexibility, particularly for backing-up my boot drive.

I successfully cloned my 12GB boot partition on the master (40GB) HD to the
External HD. When I swap these drives, the new (160GB) drive boots OK.
However, when I cloned the newly created 12GB partition from the 160GB HD
(in its exerenal USB drive) to the Slave IDE drive, the resulting partition
won't boot (it gets so fat, then just hangs).

Could I be hiting an issue with incompatible LBA modes ?

I'm running windows XP2, using partition magic v7 to clone the drives.

TIA,

Pete K


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