New HD:how do i do this?

[Vlad_Dracul]

I have built pcs before and messed around troubleshooting etc. Its been a while though. My situation is that i have a pc with a 40 gig single hd. I want to replace it with a bigger single drive with the minimum of fuss. I seem to remember that you could connect the new drive as a slave and then using dos commands,copy the entire contents of the original drive then mae it bootable and finally make the physical connections to make it the primary/only HD.

Can anyone give a step by step guide please?

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jo

if you use a program like norton ghost it should do a full copy and set up the mbr to match just swap the drive after the copy