Greetings Paul:

If you buy a retail hard disk it will come with complete directions and
software for transferring everything from the old disk to the new. You
will find even more details on the disk manufacturer's web site.

Happy holidays.

Earl Grey

You may wish to visit the support website of the manufacturer of your
new hard drive and see if they have a free utility program that you can use to
accomplish this task.  For example, if you have a new Western Digital drive,
you can download their free Data Lifeguard Tools which includes "drive-to-drive
copy capability"  (Ref:  http://support.wdc.com/download/).

Fujitsu
http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download/hard-drives/#diagnostic

IBM and Hitachi
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT

Maxtor
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/products/index.htm

Seagate
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html

Western Digital
http://support.wdc.com/download/
www.westerndigital.com

Or you can purchase Norton Ghost and create an "image"
of your old hard drive:

Norton Ghost
http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/overview.jsp?pcid=br&pvid=ghost10

How to copy disk-to-disk using Norton Ghost
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/powerquest.nsf/docid/2004111701520562?OpenD
ocument&src=hot&prod=Norton+Ghost&ver=10.0&csm=no&seg=hho

to whom it may concern:

i have my windows xp on a small hard drive and need to transfer it to a larger hard drive.  the folders and files along with the
setting off all the

updates how can i accomplish this the easy way. ha ha...

                                                                                                          Paul ?