wrote:

Also, if you haven't put the new harddrive in yet, I know that Seagate
and Western Digital (possibly others but I know these 2) come with
software that will replicate your old harddrive onto your new one,
even if the new harddrive is bigger than the old. It will move your OS
and all documents. The only "issue" I had was that the OS had to be
activated again. Other than that, it took about 15 minutes and it was
done.

There may be othre issues as well. For example, Maxtor's MaxBlast utility
won't copy the WIndows Installer files in C:\WIndows\Installer and it will
ruin Office's installation unless you copy that folder manually.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]