I think you need Norton Ghost or Disk Clone to get this to work.  You will probably not notice the speed difference between az 5400 and 7200 rpm drive unless you are doing something in which nanoseconds are critical. It would be cheaper (but more work) to just go ahead and install XP on the new drive, and you would not be taking any problems from the old drive to the new one.

>Hello All,
>
>I'm trying to swap hard drives in my system but am having some trouble. The system runs on WinXP Pro and I have two 40.Gig Western Digital drives installed. Currently, the primary master drive is 5400 rpm. I want to swap places with the primary slave drive which is 7200 rpm. I used WD's disc copy utility but windows won't boot from the newly copied slave drive turned master. I changed the jumpers to the new position but had to change them back when I couldn't boot WinXP. Do I need to partition and format the 7200 rpm drive and then re-install windows? It seems this might be a copy protection scheme for WinXP not booting. Could it be that this is all a waste of time wanting the faster drive as the primary boot device? Any comments are greatly appreciated.

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