So as I understand it the recommended proceedure goes...
Use DI
Shutdown (Don't reboot)
Physically remove drive containing the copy.
Or at least unplug the ribbon and power cables from it.
Works fine, just did it with the kitchen PC, upgrading
the only drive in that system to a bigger one. XP does
rabbit on about new hardware and gets you to reboot
after the first boot on the new drive, but thats all it needs.
That last bit is a pain if you want to do this on a regular basis? (Nightly)
Dunno. I dont like internal removable bay kits myself, but
you should be able to have the backup drive in one of those,
modify the virtual boot to shut down once the clone is done.
Then when you first use the system, just ensure you remove
that drive from the bay before turning the system on.
Any way to do it without having to unplug the drive.
Some of those internal bay kits do allow you to electrically
unplug the drive by turning the key on the bay kit.
I'm bound to forget or something.
No big deal if you do manage to forget sometimes.
The system will still boot fine with the clone electrically
present. The problem is that if you need to boot off the
clone, XP will get seriously confused when it cant see the
original boot drive anymore and is booting off the clone.
Thats not a disaster, you can just boot the XP CD and
repair the installation on the clone drive. Just a nuisance
to have to do that compared with just being able to boot
off the clone drive without any special action except the
reboot if the original boot drive dies physically etc.
Thats all using DI 2002. DI 7 can use external firewire
and USB2 drives and can do the clone at the XP level
rather than dropping to DOS to do it. In fact since you
have everything you need, you might as well run V2i
Protector instead and have it incrementally back up
the system on the fly, in the background, all the time.