How about trying Sven's manual procedure you are refering to, but insead of creating just music partition, replicating partition structure of your old disk? Linux fdisk is as easy to use (and easy to destroy data with ) as its DOS counterpart...

Of course, to apply the complete SW image to the new disk you should reinstall it as primary after partitioning it, but you intended to do that anyway.

Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
Q#5196, MkII#80000376, 18GB green