You start out taking clone and even indicated that in the subject line.
Then, you start talking about imaging which is another process.

You never indicated where you're saving your image or the partition size and
available space on that partition for saving the image file.

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Jonny
"Xu" <xuxuxuxu@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:dGHuf.38686$Lb1.8053@bignews3.bellsouth.net.. .
> I am trying to learn how to clone my drive. I have dabbled with it and I
see
> that the actual image would be 32gig in size. I am wondering what I can
do
> to make this process smaller? I wonder if I reformatted and put XP on a
> separate partition if that would help because right now two clone programs
I
> have tried both want to copy the hole HDD. I assume that is because I have
> everything on one partition.
>
> I have no floppy, so trying to use the disks for boot up is not much of an
> option for me unless I can use one of my sd disks in the card reader.
>
> What I want is a full copy of my system, and all the files that install in
> the Programs folder. That is all I want. I don't care about anything else,
> so it does not seem necessary that I copy the whole drive, which is
actually
> a 75gig drive.
>
>