There are several approaches to solve your problem. I will assume that you
have the disk formatted to NTFS - if it was a FAT partition, then you could
copy it just like with Win98.

Some hard drive manufacturers include a utility with their retail products
that will allow you to copy the contents of your old drive to the new one -
it is done at a low level so the NTFS should be copied without problems.
Another option would be to activate a "Recovery Console" on your present
drive, boot to the Recovery Console, and then partition & format the new
drive and copy the original drive files to the new drive.

One other option you could use is that XP includes the ability to connect
additional drives as a folder in the directory structure of the original
drive. For example, if you have a folder named Documents where you keep all
of your document files, you could move all of the contents of the Documents
folder to the new drive and then mount the new drive as the Documents
folder. This would give you the full capacity of the new drive in the
Documents folder! This assignment is done through Disk Manager - access it
by going to Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk
Management. There you would right click on the new drive and select the
Assign Drive Letter and Paths option. You could remove the drive letter
assignment there as well and you now have a single drive showing in your
system, but a large capacity Documents folder!

One caveat with a drive mounted as a folder. XP has a bug in it that will
prevent you from deleting any folders from a drive that is mounted this way.
You can, however, move a folder from this drive to the root of your C: drive
and then delete it. A nuisance, but easily worked around.

Good luck with your upgrade.

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
Hi Listers:  I'm running WinXP Pro on my machine and have finally realized
that I need a larger hard drive. I need to know how to go about transferring
all the OS and files that I have on the small drive to the new one without
messing up something and in the end losing everything.  I know that in Win98
it was a fairly simple procedure but I'm really new to this XP OS. Any help
or answers will be much appreciated.  Thanks  Ed Bogert.

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