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Folks - most hard drive manufacturers offer a free utility to clone hard drives. I use this all the time - Western Digital, Maxtor, IBM, and Seagate all have one.
Being that we are a Western Digital house, I can describe how easy this is with WD's EZ-Install. You put the new drive in the box as primary master and you put the old drive on any other IDE position available. Boot with the WD disk and choose EZ-Install. Go for the fully automatic setup unless you want to specify custom partition sizes. It will partition and format the drive. The software will then give you the choice to copy your old drive to the new one. Do it - and when it's done you pull the old drive out and boot up to your new hard drive. No need to buy Ghost or fiddle with a network.
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