Interesting.

Interesting. Thanks for the advice.

No problem.

Been there: done that. As they say.

Apologies to Dan for butting in.

No apologies required at all. Thanks for answering. ;>)

Another question.
If the new hard disk takes an exact copy of the old during the cloning process, that will leave approx 250GB unaccounted for. How does the computer indicate that space? Does it just treat it as another local disk?

It will be "seen" as free space by the system. Use Windows Disk Manager to create partitions in this space. Then the new partitions will be recognized by My Computer or Windows Explorer. You can then format those partitions with the file system of your choice.

OK. Thanks.