Whats the best way to ransfer everything?

[PigGuy]

I have XP Pro and I just formatted my hard drive (NTFS)a few weeks ago for the first time since I got XP when it came out. I really, really, really do not want to do all that setup crap and getting it all back to how I like it.
I just bought one of the 80GB drives from WD with the 8MB cache to replace a drive with bad sectors in my sister's computer. I want to give her my old 20GB drive and install the new 80GB drive in my computer.
As I said, I do not want to reinstall everything again. What would be the best way to do this?
Normally I would just format it all and start from scratch after backing up what I wanted to keep, but since I just did that, I want to do it the fast, lazy way.

What I planed on doing was to put the new HD in my comp as the master and install XP on my new drive and format it all to NTFS. Then I would put it back as a slave and copy my old OS over the existing OS and everything would be fine and dandy... I am pretty sure that I am a fool and this plan won't work.

[FunkDaMonkMan]

er.... um.. heh... uh...

I don't think that would work.

You can make an image of your drive using norton ghost and copy it that way. I've never used norton to do this, but I know it can be done.

[hduong]

Just use drive image or norton ghost. It'll allow you to image the drive and keep the file system too. I used drive image to copy my two o/s partitions to the my new drive and everything was fine.

[thefly]

Hmm ghost or drive image will surely work.

But you might want to check out western digital's web page and download Data Lifeguard Tools. I think you can copy your data from one from to another with this tool.

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