AJR

Look - there is no difficulty in "swapping" a HD for another of greater
capacity - it is a relatively common practice! A new drive package willl
contain a utility disk with explanations on copying/cloning an old drive to
the new. Basic procedure is to install the newHD as a "Slave" - copy/clone
old drive the "Master" to the slave - then make the slave the master -
remove old master or make it a slave and use for whatever.

There are several good programs available - such as Acronis and Norton's
Ghost - amd most likely one or two "freeware" programs.

BUT - keep in mind - most likely reactivation of the OS will be required and
probalby necessary by phone.

<markharris2000@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Should be simple enough. I bought a new PC with a SATA boot drive and
> a second SATA data holding drive (two drives). I simply want to swap
> the boot drive (first drive) for a higher capacity drive. The new
> drive is SATA also.
>
> I can't find any specific Microsoft sanctioned approach to do this
> under VISTA PREMIUM, and lots of fragments of discussions for folks
> trying to do this, with random and limited success. I even saw a
> reference to what appears that the OS actually binds itself the the
> disk hardware ID itself in the 'registry'.
>
> Does anyone know of any simple suggestions, perhaps using commercial
> tools (microsoft or whoever) to allow the disk swap?
>