When you install a program, the Registry is updated to show the 
locations of files and drives needed to run the specific program.  If 
your E drive is now called C, you may have trouble booting up and some 
programs may not work unless you reinstall them.   You may also have 
problems with printers, usb ports and file retrieval.  The best choice 
would be to reinstall xp on the new drive along with all your programs.  
Then you can copy your files from the old drive to the new drive.   If 
your computer is more than a year old and cluttered with programs you 
don't use, etc., you will see better performance.   Do a little research 
on the web about the registry for more information - the physical moving 
of the data is easy, the complexity of the registry is the issue.
Paul Hachmeyer

      Laurie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  I currently have XP on E: I'm going to get a bigger disk
>& transfer XP to what will be C: Friends tell me this can't
>be done,though their explanations as to why seem rather
>vague. can it be done? What problems will I encounter?
>Laurence
>

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