Hi Scott. There is a clean way to transfer the exact contents of your hard disk to another hard disk. You just have to use a 'clone hard disk' software (google it!). It did it some months ago (I can give you the name of the software I used, tomorrow, but there are many choices available) and it worked perfectly, not only for my Windows XP Pro partition, but also for my Linux ones. You can even resize your partitions if your destination disk has more room than the source disk. If you intend to boot from this destination disk you will want to choose the 'boot disk' option. The way I did it was putting the new disk in a USB external box. Couldn't be easier, really. However, if your OS installation is 'old' and you already had problems with it before, the best would be, of course, to perform a fresh installation of everything.

-- José.

[This message has been edited by Route 66 (edited 03-22-2005).]