new computer, old hd, transferring winxp to a new hd

[fanish]

I have an AMD 950mhz computer that is about 4 years old and I have upgraded it's limit, new video card, 640mb ram, etc.

After I get my tax return I'm going to buy a barebones pentium 4 3.0 ghz computer and transplant my video card, hd, floppy, cdrom, and cd burner to the new computer.

My hd originally had win98se on it, now I have upgraded to winxp pro. It is only 20 gigs and with Final Fantasy XI taking up 6 gigs!(I know it, I can't believe it either) I am running short on room for my other games and programs. So, I am seriously thinking of getting a new, larger hd, something in the 80-120 gig range.

My hd is obviously alot slower(and smaller) than anything out there now, so would I be better off getting a new hd and just scrapping the old one? Would it be difficult reinstalling xp onto it? Since my xp is the upgrade edition? I have the old win98se disk and reg code and what not.

Or, should I use the old hd, get a new hd and make it the slave? Can I transfer winxp to the new hd, would that make an impact on performance having the OS on the faster newer hd? I'd like to keep the 20 gig hd anyway, nice to have extra storage.

Thanks.

[bailey]

eather way you want to do it will be fine.
the new drive if retail will come with software to transfer everythint to the new drive.
then you can wipe the old drive and slave it for ather uses.

[Confused]

You can do it as Bailey pointed out. That said, personally I would do a clean install on the new drive using a 10G partition. I would use that partition for XP, XP updates and driver downloads. Put everything else on rest of drive, either as one big partition or several partitions. I only have a 80G and have it set up as 10G for XP, 20G for application programs and data, 40G for downloads, saving recorded TV programs, ect and 10G as temporary storage for things that will eventually get burned to CD.

One advantage of partitioning is faster Dfrags. You get a 120G full, Dfrag will take a long tiime.
Chas