New HD: Copying files

[Richolmes72]

Hi there,

I've recently filled up my 120gb Maxtor Hard Drive so have another 160gb one on order which should arrive thursday or friday.

I'm currently running XP Home and its running really slow. I just did a fresh install on a p3: 700 and it leaves my Pentium 4 in the dust because its so trashed so I am planning to do a re-format with a copy of XP Pro i have available.

I Have 2 Questions:

1: Both Drives spin at 7200rpm but the new 160gb drive has 8mb cache instead of 2mb. Would this be best to install windows on?

2. To Transfer files, can i just install Xp Pro on the 160gb drive and then plug my old drive in as a slave and copy them across? even though it has a working copy of XP Home in it? Will that not cause conflicts?

Any Replies would be much Appreciated.

Richolmes

[bigandy]

Install Windows on the drive with the 8MB cache.

As long as your drives are properly jumpered, you shouldn't have a problem. If you don't want to do it this way, you can either burn the files to CDR(W) or do so across a network if you have one. But the quickest way would be slaving the drive, and copying the files, then wipe it.