Well, I can certainly see a need for ethernet upon recovery. I'll try to find out how to add the missing driver to the Ghost recovery discs. The reason I'm using Norton Ghost 15 (or Acronis True Image as a runner up) is because of my odd requirements.

I want a bootable clone, not a recoverable image (though I may end up doing the latter when I've become more comfortable with managing partitions). Furthermore, the target HDD is smaller than the source HDD, and I want the cloning app to downsize partitions in the cloning process. That way, I don't have to mess around with the partitions on the source drive before making and verifying the clone. Finally, I want to clone all 4 partitions (Toshiba has extra partitions for recovery operations), so the app should have the flexibility to downsize the C-drive partition in the cloning process. I did some googling around to find which apps have shown evidence of meeting such (not-so-common) requirements, and somewhere, Macrium was vetted out.

I don't recall the exact reason, but would you be able to comment on its ability to meet all the above requirements? As for Paragon, a respondent in one of their forums suggested Migrate OS to SSD, which I bought and tried. I wasn't able to select all 4 partitions. I'm assuming that it detected the boot partition (partition 1) and the C-drive partition (partition 2), but the former wasn't very clear.

Tech support was not sure that it was designed for what I was trying to do, and suggested other apps. The driver you are looking for you have to get from where you got your modem - e.g. I doubt though that you need it.

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As far as imaging goes, if you are comfortable with Ghost, use it by all means. But if you want to use an SSD, I suggest you only transfer the C partition and maybe the 100MB system partition (if you do not want to move the bootmgr from there to C). But with your images, there is no need to clutter up the SSD with the recovery partition and the tools partition. The Paragon Migration Tool is excellent for transferring C to the SSD. I use it all the time. The driver you are looking for you have to get from where you got your modem - e.g. Disgaea 4 Iso Torrent on this page.

I doubt though that you need it. As far as imaging goes, if you are comfortable with Ghost, use it by all means. But if you want to use an SSD, I suggest you only transfer the C partition and maybe the 100MB system partition (if you do not want to move the bootmgr from there to C). But with your images, there is no need to clutter up the SSD with the recovery partition and the tools partition. The Paragon Migration Tool is excellent for transferring C to the SSD. I use it all the time.Thanks whs.I'm a bit confused by #1, though. I didn't install the driver (or anything that I think would install such a driver).

I strongly suspect that the driver came with the laptop, bought from Toshiba (or rather, through a local computer store who ordered it from Toshiba). I didn't get it from my ISP, and it would be quite surprising if it was specific to my ISP. I'm wondering if I properly understood your point#1?

About #2, I'm not really migrating to SSD, but Seagate's hybrid Momentus XT 500GB. It has way, way more capacity than I ever expect to use. So that's why I want to migrate the recovery partitions as well.

Because if I ever lose my Toshiba recovery disks, I will be able to reburn them. Actually, Toshiba makes it so that you can recover to factory state without recovery disks (hold 0 down while powering up). I will never by stuck in another city just for lack of recovery disks. Does this strategy sound reasonable in light of the excessive capacity of the target HDD? Similar help and support threads Thread Forum Hello, this is my first post i don't have much time to write it so i will go straight to the point! Today while i was trying to connect to the internet i discovered that my network card and some other components showed up in device manager with the following message 'This device is not working.