This would be how I would do it.... first get a brand shiny new hard drive which 
will become your main windows drive. I have a 80Gb drive to hold Windows and all 
installed programs.  Speed wise, the previous posts have offered good tips - high 
RPM, large cache etc.

Install and configure your drives so the new one is the primary drive and the old 
drive is the slave. (Don't worry about all the files and the Windows instalatin on 
the old drive - just leave them there for now).

Run the Windows XP setup and install it to the C: drive (the new one)

When you boot from this new drive, it will use the new installation of Windows on 
C: and in My Computer, the old one should be listed as D: From there you can delete 
everything on it except the files you wish to keep.

Then I would left-click Start and right-click on My Documents, go to Properties and 
choose D: as the My Documents folder.

This way, all installed programs will go to C and all your documents and files to 
D. If you ever need to format, you can do it knowing that the D drive will remain 
untouched!

Hope this helps.









On Saturday, July 30, 2005 at 6:02 pm, Orangehenry wrote:

>Um I think I've got you all confused- I'm talking about putting windows on a different 

>physical hard drive.

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