transfering contents of one drive to another

[rammstein junkie]

ok i have a old 40gig pATA and i wanna go out and Buy a new Seagate 7200.8 120gig sATA, but i dont want to have to reinstall windows in the process is there any way (espially a free one) to transfer my whole install of windows w/ programs and files from my old HDD to my new one?

 

[BOLt]

set drives to slave
make new, formatted hard drive your active disk with WinXp installed
you should be able to transfer files from new to old

i could be wrong, though

 

[Leros]

Download discwizard from Seagates website. It has an option to copy the whole disk.
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.html

 

[rammstein junkie]

it works even if both drives arnt seagate's?

 

[volrath]

I assume so. Maxtor has the same software, it detects a new hard drive and copies everything over with a pretty easy UI.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Xcopy works quite well. Plus it's already built into windows.