new hard drive with win XP

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I hope this is the right group for this post. I have filled up my original
40 gig hard drive and am in the process of buying a larger drive. How do I
transfer the entire contents of the old drive onto the new one?
Can I boot up into dos and use xcopy for all the files? Thank you for
answering my question.
 
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I hope this is the right group for this post. I have filled up my
original 40 gig hard drive and am in the process of buying a larger
drive. How do I transfer the entire contents of the old drive onto
the new one?
Can I boot up into dos and use xcopy for all the files? Thank you for
answering my question.
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Most retail hard drives come with a utility to help you transfer files.
XCOPY is NOT an option.

Might I ask why you would do that anyway? Install the second hard drive and
I would be willing to bet MOST of the 40GB is DATA from you, not installed
applications - move the data to the new drive after you install it and
initialize it. Then you have your 40GB as the system/install and the new
120+GB as your data drive. If the 40 crashes and burns, your data is safely
tucked away on the other physical drive. (Course, the opposite can be said.
heh)
 
Keep your 40gig "C" drive as your boot drive with systems files. Make your new harddrive as a "slave" drive "D" and move all your data to it. You can move all your data to it by using the "drag & drop" or "copy & paste" feature in large chunks.
 
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