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i've finally completed the partitioning & file moves - there is now no problem imaging the the smaller 60gigs of just OS & apps
maybe it was a bad file on the the source drive? i've seen other posts where this was thought to be the case & i did delete a lot in the process - used 'disk cleanup' and deleted all restore points... in addition to moving all the data files
anyway good enough for now :) thanks all for the help