Hard drive Partition/Installation/Vista Question

kingston73

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Current setup: 2 X 250Gb Hdd's, one has Vista Business installed, the other has been used as storage only. I bought a WD 1T hard drive, and want to do the following:
1. break the large drive up into either 2 sections of 500 Gb or 4 sections of 250Gb
2. Install Vista on the new drive (have the full Vista Business CD)
3. Install the Windows 7 RC on one of my original 250 drives
4. Keep the 3rd 250 drive as a storage

This is what I've come up with, and would like opinions on whether there is a better way to do this:
1) install the new drive and using Acronic Disk Manager break it into partions
2) unplug the other 2 drives, leaving just the new drive plugged into the sata connection, and boot into that drive using my Vista CD.
3) install Vista on the new drive
4) plug the other drives back in, reformat the 250Gb drive that had vista installed

Suggestions and opinions greatly appreciated, I've never done this before. Thank you all ahead of time!
 

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    WD 1T Caviar Black
    WD 250Gb Caviar SE
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