My current machine specs are a Gateway E-4200 purchased in September 1999, a TABOR motherboard flashed with the latest BIOS update dated 11/30/99, Pentium II 400, 196MB RAM, Windows Me, A: 3.5" Floppy, C: 13.6 GB Quantum, D: Toshiba DVD, E: Sony CD-RW, F: Zip 100MB. The C: and F: drives are on the primary channel with C: as master and F: as slave and the D: and E: are on the secondary channel with D: as master and E: as slave. 

I never use the DVD drive and plan to pull it out and replace it with a new EIDE 60GB HD from Western Digital. I would like to clone the old C: drive onto the new hard drive and use the new drive as my boot drive since it is a 7200RPM drive. I would then use the old hard drive as a backup and data storage drive. I have read the instruction sheet from Western Digital and this looks like a simple process since the software included with the new drive is supposed to copy the old drive onto the new drive. As I understand it, I just set the new drive as the master and the old as the slave. Pull the DVD drive, install the new drive, copy over the files and when I reboot everything will be copacetic. Am I missing anything here or is it as easy as it seems? Thanks for your help.

Larry Scroggs
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