pete

or you can look at it another way.........
Leave the HD and all of its programs where it is and add the new HD as a
slave drive(EIDE) to the existing configuration.This way you will have even
more space and less work.
Each EIDE channel can handle 2 devices with the appropriate cable which is
most likely already there.On the back of the HD are jumpers you will need to
set the new HD jumpers to slave and then install into machine by plugging it
into the middle connection of the Eide Cable and plugging in power .When XP
starts go to Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management and
format the drive........its now ready for use.
You could then copy and paste all of your personal files over to a new
folder as well as move IE cache as well as Outlook Express mailbox over
under their respective Tools options.All new Programs that you install in
the future can be installed onto the new drive.
your choice
peter
"SCFrank" <SCFrank@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Greetings all-
> Looks like this group has some pretty serious expertise with Vista. I'm
> running Vista Ultimate (Home Premium upgrade - anytime upgrade to
> Ultimate).
> All is currently very smooth, with one exception which needs to be
> addressed,
> so I thought this would be the best place to ask to following question:
>
> I am running out of disk space on my 120GB drive and would like to replace
> it with a 300GB or better, so what I'd like to know is --- Is there a
> ghosting type program such as Acronis True Image, or Norton Ghost, that
> would
> allow me to make a bit-for-bit copy of my existing Vista volume and move
> it
> to a larger drive, without having to back-up critical files, and do a
> triple
> re-install (XP, then Home Premium, then the Ultimate install)??
>
> Any help is appriciated - Frank