I've just installed a new 40gigHD to go with my old 40gigHD. Currently the new one is running as the slave. I went a little overboard when I first installed xp and put 5 partitions on the HD. I want the HD with XP to have just two partitions. One for XP and apps and one for pictures n' stuff. The other HD I want unpartitioned with all my computer recorded music. I would do a clean install of XP on the new HD and just wipe the old one but I lost my win98SE disc(needed for upgrade verification), so I can't. Here's what I think I need to do, but I don't know how. 1) use XP to partion and format the new drive 2)Transfer XP and whatever else over to the new drive 3)switch the drives so the new one is the master and the old one the slave 4) use XP to re-format the original drive Anyone know how I do this? Ptronius

Symantec makes a utlity called ghost. It is wonderful. You can create an image of your pc on your second hard drive if its formatted fat32. do the local partition to drive option. then recreate your partitions, then pull the image back down using local image to parition and its done. good luck

Norton ghost or casper xp, drive to drive. Then partition magic 8 to resize the partitions. Good luck.

Download drvimageXP. It is free and will make a byte by byte copy of your hard drive. To format from within XP right click my computer/manage/disk management. Once there you can eaisly figure it out. First format your new HD and then run drvimageXP to make the copy. Then change the HD's jumpers to make the new one master. You should boot up with no problem. But just in case make an XP boot disk. You will need to explore my computer, go to tools/folder options/view, and select show hidden files and folders, and uncheck hide protected operating system files. Then run a search for boot.ini.,ntldr, and ntdetect. Save them to disk and that's your boot disk.

Correction It is drvimagerXP. Get it here http://www.softnews.ro/public/cat/13/2/13-2-39.shtml