This is generally good advice however before you follow it make sure your
motherboard can accomodate 2 hard drives and a DVD drive. Some of the new,
less expensive boards only have 1 IDE controller. You might have to go the
SATA route to add a 2nd drive.
Art
"Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User" <mikehall@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> That is what I would do too..
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> "pete" <pete@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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>> 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
>> news:E8A8BB07-020B-48FB-8093-4C1C4F5EF1ED@microsoft.com...
>>> 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
>>
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> Mike Hall
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