Dear steve_berlin-ga,
Unfortunately, the ability to do this - move your disk partitions
without copying - is not something built into Windows XP itself.
However, software is available to perform this task.
The two most popular pieces of software used to perform this are
Norton Ghost
http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00006FXML/
Symantec (formerly PowerQuest) Drive Image 7
http://www.powerquest.com/driveimage/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00009V7I4/
I use Norton Ghost regularly myself to duplicate workstation hard
drives for corporate rollouts, and would recommend it to you, but
either product should suit your needs.
While the full details of what you need to do should be included with
either package, essentially you need to put your new hard drive into
your system along with your old hard drive, and then use the software
to copy the old hard drive to the new. Then remove the old hard drive
and put the new one in its place (making sure it is identically
configured - i.e., if the old hard drive was set as "master" on the
"primary" IDE controller, make sure the new one is also set thus), and
you should be able to boot off the new hard drive as you could before.
The only exception is if you are moving from an IDE drive to a SCSI
drive, or vice versa. In this case, you will need to reinstall Windows
XP on top of your current installation, as Windows requires the
relevant drivers in order to start up. Unfortunately, there's no way
around this, but if you're replacing your old drive with one of the
same type, it won't be a problem.
If this answer isn't quite what you're looking for, please feel free
to request a clarification.
Hope this helps,
cerebrate-ga
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