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One way
Tidy up your present hard drive including removing unwanted programs, empty the temp directory, scandisk and defrag
Open the computer
Jumper the new drive as a slave
Remove the old drive
Place it upside down on the case and reconnect it
Connect the new drive to the second output on the ide cable (if it does have two outputs go and buy (cheap) one that does) and place it upside down on the case
Get a copy of Drive Image from Powerquest and put a DOS version on a floppy
Set the BIOS with both drives (there should be an auto detect)
Start it up with a startup disk in the floppy drive
Use fdisk to create a primary (the size of your current C: drive or more) and extended (the remaing free space) partions on the drive
Format the extended partion
Use Drive Image to create an image (broken down into files of 600 meg) on to the extended partion
Turn of the computer
Remove both drives from the cables
Jumper the new drive to be master
Put the new drive back in it's place and put the cables back in
Set the BIOS to the single drive (there should be an auto detect)
Bootup with a startup disk
Use Drive Image to restore the image you created to the primary partion
Restart
Everything should bootup as you had it before
Use your CD burner to copy the image files on to CDs (also place a copy of Drive Image on the first disk)
Now you can restore your computer any time you want from these CDs
Store the old drive for a bit as a backup but you shouldn't need it again
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