changing OS to different drive

I run a computer with two hard drives
The first HDis 80gb(Drive C and has the Operating
system on it
The second HD is 40gb(Drive D(Both are NTFS)
I wish to put the Operating system on the 40gb HD so that
the 80gb HD can be used soley for video editing.
How do I go about this and will I have activation
problems?

Can I just load xp onto 40gb HD, change master and slave over, reboot and format 80gb HD from within windows?Or will I have activation problem in loading xp onto the other drive?

"Tony" wrote:

> I run a computer with two hard drives
> The first HDis 80gb(Drive C and has the Operating
> system on it
> The second HD is 40gb(Drive D(Both are NTFS)
> I wish to put the Operating system on the 40gb HD so that
> the 80gb HD can be used soley for video editing.
> How do I go about this and will I have activation
> problems?
>
>

You won't have any activation problems - the installation process will sense
that this is the same PC. However, you must set your master/slave
relationship ***before*** installing WinXP, not after.


"Tona" <Tona@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FEC00B08-5372-4254-9F1B-411AD578D8CD@microsoft.com...
> Can I just load xp onto 40gb HD, change master and slave over, reboot and
format 80gb HD from within windows?Or will I have activation problem in
loading xp onto the other drive?
>
> "Tony" wrote:
>
> > I run a computer with two hard drives
> > The first HDis 80gb(Drive C and has the Operating
> > system on it
> > The second HD is 40gb(Drive D(Both are NTFS)
> > I wish to put the Operating system on the 40gb HD so that
> > the 80gb HD can be used soley for video editing.
> > How do I go about this and will I have activation
> > problems?
> >
> >