New drive, XP, more RAM all at once

[Camion]

I am planning on installing a new hard drive, XP (from 98SE), and two more sticks of RAM (way cheap now), and I was wondering what order I should do it in. How about this -- First I put in the new drive (Barrracuda V) as a slave, and get it going. Then I install XP so the drive has some personality. Then, I move my stuff from the old drive to the new one, but without all of the OS (is this possible?). Then take out the old drive and make the new drive a master. Later, if it works, put in the new RAM. Or should I just upgrade to XP in the existing drive, and put the new drive in as a slave and transfer the entire old drive to the new one? Or something else??

 

[eklass]

ram shouldn't matter.. go ahead and throw that in at the beginning.. your system will thank you...

i would then put the new drive in the case.. ensure that the bios is seeing it and detecting it correctly...

then install xp fresh on your new drive... copy over files as needed... viola!

i usually throw all my documents on a crap 6GB drive (which means i have to lose the pr0n collection )... then i fresh format and install and then copy everythign over

p.s. don't forget to copy over anyhting you might need such as outlook .pst files and your favorites folder...