replacing small hard drive with a larger hard drive.

i bought a maxtor ata hard drive 160gb.(7200 rpm) I tried to replace the
old drive (28gb)by loading windows xp home/sp2 onto the big drive but
doesn't recognize the drive.I had tried downloading the software upgrade
(maxblast 4) for it but couldn't get it to run.It also said I need a version
of windows with Fat32 files system for drives over 32g ; but i got NTFS file
system on my computer. I got a pentium 4. cpu 2.53 ghz.1gb of ram.desktop
version.how do i transfer the operating system to the bigger drive?and get
rid of the small drive after i transfer all files and settings to the big
drive.I am just about to through my computer out the window,so any help will
do.Thank you.

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roger sam had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

> i bought a maxtor ata hard drive 160gb.(7200 rpm) I tried to replace
> the old drive (28gb)by loading windows xp home/sp2 onto the big drive
> but doesn't recognize the drive.I had tried downloading the software
> upgrade (maxblast 4) for it but couldn't get it to run.It also said I
> need a version of windows with Fat32 files system for drives over 32g
> ; but i got NTFS file system on my computer. I got a pentium 4. cpu
> 2.53 ghz.1gb of ram.desktop version.how do i transfer the operating
> system to the bigger drive?and get rid of the small drive after i
> transfer all files and settings to the big drive.I am just about to
> through my computer out the window,so any help will do.Thank you.

Toss the drive in with it's jumpers set to slave.
Boot the OS and let it install the drivers
Right click the drive in My Computer
Select format and make it NTFS
Head here:

Backup! Image/Clone:
http://kgiii.info/windows/all/advanced/image-clone.html

There you'll find some options but there's a free application available that
is linked there. Clone Maxx is it's name... Grab it, read it's help file,
use it...

Take the copy of the C: drive (using that application) and move it to the
new drive
Remove the old drive from the system
Change the jumpers on the new drive to master (you can move it's place on
the ribbon cable now if you'd like)
Reboot

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Sorry but SATA drives dont have pin settings like IDE drives do.Also,SATA
drives usually wont except a transfer or mirror like IDE drives will,XCOPY
simply wont work.Youre best bet,install xp cd,select file transfer wizard,set
as old computer,select files,settings for it to save,save the data in a new
folder
that you create,once the data is in folder,move to cd.Run the wizard as new
computer once xp is installed.You'll need to do a clean install of xp,plus
you
probably need to press F6 when booting to xp cd,install SATA controller
drivers.

"roger sam" wrote:

> i bought a maxtor ata hard drive 160gb.(7200 rpm) I tried to replace the
> old drive (28gb)by loading windows xp home/sp2 onto the big drive but
> doesn't recognize the drive.I had tried downloading the software upgrade
> (maxblast 4) for it but couldn't get it to run.It also said I need a version
> of windows with Fat32 files system for drives over 32g ; but i got NTFS file
> system on my computer. I got a pentium 4. cpu 2.53 ghz.1gb of ram.desktop
> version.how do i transfer the operating system to the bigger drive?and get
> rid of the small drive after i transfer all files and settings to the big
> drive.I am just about to through my computer out the window,so any help will
> do.Thank you.
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