Originally posted here by nihil
Do you know anything about the rest of the hardware?



That is Pentium II/Windows 95 era!...........hell, even my Bigfoot is a 14.4Gb

The basic problems will be:

1. Getting the BIOS to recognise a 100GB drive.
2. Getting XP to run on the new drive, given that it is hardware configuration sensitive.

The correct approach is to:

1. Install the new drive as master and the old one as slave.
2. get the BIOS to recognise the new drive.
3. Load XP from the CDs, creating what partitions you want (probably one each for the OS, applications and data)
4. Activate XP
5. Install AV and FIREWALL
6. Update XP
7. Reinstall applications.
8. Update applications
9. Move data files into their partition.
10.Run in test for a while, and when satisfied reformat the slave and use it for backup.



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

Exactly, which is why I generally ask first as I know that many people who come to this site get asked to help out others
The bigfoot is probably 14GB. I couldn't remember and was estimating, but either way it's too small. Hardware is not an issue. The new drive is recognized in both BIOS and Windows. And just to answer your question, the specs are PIII 551MHz, 256 RAM running on an Inteva machine.

And i don't really get what you are trying to tell me with your 10 step process. Reinstall and copy everything over? That's what i'm trying to avoid. Thanks though.