Loy,
Actually you will want to image to the new drive, for best results.
I suggest you access this excellent tutorial on using Ghost.
You will be able to avoid all the pitfalls.
HTH,
Hal Seabolt
http://ghost.radified.com/ghost_1.htm<http://ghost.radified.com/ghost_1.htm>
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Loy Pressley<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
  To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
  Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 7:33 PM
  Subject: [PCBUILD] Change Hard Drive


  Hi all,

  Since I got no answers to my previous query, I'll try to phrase this a
  different way.

  I have a 40 gig hard drive on this system.  Windows XP recognizes only
  31.7 gig as usable.  Why this is, I do not know.  16.2 gig is in use
  with 15.5 gig free space.  I need more hard drive space so I want to go
  to an 80 gig or larger IDE hard drive.  I have only one drive bay in
  this system (Dell L800r running at 800 MHz, WinXP SR2 operating system,
  FAT32 file system).  My plan to change out the hard drive is:

      - using Norton Ghost, make an image of Drive C:

      - physically remove the old hard drive and install the new drive.

      - using the Windows XP System Setup Disk that I just downloaded from
  the good folks at Free PC Tech Support,
  http://freepctech.com/pc/002/files010.shtml<http://freepctech.com/pc/002/files010.shtml>, I will format and partition
  the new hard drive.

      - then, I will restore the image of Drive C: I made earlier with
  Norton Ghost, to the new hard drive and I should be ready to go.  Right?

  Will this work?  What kind of pitfalls am I likely to encounter?  Any
  help and/or guidance would be greatly appreciated.  I am certainly no
  expert on computers.

  Thanks...

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