Hi Dru,
Cloning just copies one drive to another.
Like xeroxing, cloning doesn't hurt anything.
So you can buy a large enough hard drive, run whatever cloning program comes with it, and try the cloned drive as your main drive in the original computer.
Windows should boot normally.
All your programs (including Soapware) should run without re-installation.
But wait a few minutes when Windows first boots from a cloned drive.
Windows may belatedly announce that it found-and-installed-new-equipment that requires a reboot because your new hard drive is a different model than your old hard drive.
Cheers,
Carl Fogel
