New Hard Drive in Computer with XP

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My original hard drive that came with my HP computer running Windows XP Home
is making serious noise....looking at a Western Digital drive to replace
it...will the WD drive come with software to handle moving XP to the new
drive?. I understand there is a portion of the orignial drive (partition?)
that has XP programing on it used for restoring, will all that move over too?
Do I have to take an active role in copying the parts of XP over that make
it a single machine system?

I have a second hard drive, I assume I'll be taking that one off-line, maybe
putting the original C: drive in the slave position, putting the new drive in
master, copying over, taking the failing drive out of slave (and into the
garbage), and finally re-connecting the original slave. Any help is
appreciated!
 
Yes a new hard drive should come with the appropraite software... check at
their website.
 

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