Transfering data to a new system HD

Hey gang,

My second system has a old 5400 rpm drive in it and it is just not performing very well at all. I have a newer 7200 rpm (2 meg cache) drive that I can replace it with but I really don't want to start all over with a new install because it is my wife's comp and god knows what she has on there.

My questions are these:
1) will moving to the 7200 rpm drive make much difference?

2) Is there a way to transfer all the the system from one disk to the other and just trade out the drives without needing to reinstall everything?

Thanks,
Jarlax

u should feel a prefomance difference between the 2 drives.

Use norton Ghost. A very small, simple program. You boot your PC from a Ghost Floppy. And then just copy one drive onto another. It will make an exact copy.

1) Yes you will see a difference

2) Use Norton Ghost or ImageDrive

Norton and ImageDrive will make a complete image of your current 5400 RPM Hard Drive and make that image onto your New 7200RPM Hard Drive...