Nihil is right...if you are trying to take the old install into new hardware....it wont boot.

You used to be able to do that with NT 4.0...you just removed all the 3rd party drivers and moved the harddrive\install to new hardware...then reinstall the drivers.

But this fwent away with 2000.....and definately XP.

There is the files and setting transfer wizard....not sure if its available in XP home....this may be your option.....although I have never used it???

As suggested earlier...use the old drive as a slave and copy the data after the fresh install.

MLF