Bahh... people assume. But i guess thats what i get for not specifying.

It's not my laptop i am taking about. It's a desktop that belongs to my roommate's grandpa. He has a 12 gig Quantum Bigfoot in it right now and it's out of space. So he bought a new 100GB drive and basically wants an exact image of the old HD put onto the new one. I asked my roommate if the new HD could just be extra storage but he said the grandparents are old and senile and need to be able to save things to the default C drive.

So... I am trying to get a hold of Ghost 2003 cuz that will most likely do it. But has anyone done this with partition magic and just copying the partitions over to the new drive? I don't know if it would be an exact bootable image or not. Might be issues with the MFT or something.

And yes it is windows XP, as stated in the subject. And when i say copy the "OS" i mean all the programs and files along with it, yes.