I was recently helping a friend move their XP install over to a new hard drive without having to re-install XP or any of their programs.
The situation is this, she previously had an 80gb drive with XP installed on it, and a secondary 250gb drive. She bought a 750gb drive and wanted to move the contents of the 250gb to the 750gb and then move Windows from the 80gb to the 250gb.
Normally I would just re-install everything if it was me moving the install, so I haven’t had to do this before.
First off we installed Partition Magic and formatted the 750gb drive and backed up the contents of both the 250gb drive and the 80gb drive to it. Read the full article