upgrading internal drive

[Guest]

Is it possible to transfer settings, files and apps from my current XP Pro
internal harddrive onto a network drive (mac or pc via wireless network) stay
with me... then pull the internal drive, replacing it with a larger capacity
drive, on which XP Pro is already installed and import my previous
settings, files and apps?

As I understand it, the "file and settings transfer wizard" should be able
to accomplish such a task. I've had no luck, only an error message when
wizard attempts to import the file it exported to the network drive... not a
usable file or something. Ugh.

There's no FLOPPY drive on the machine, nor do I have original microsoft xp
pro install disks, only the Dell CD labeled "Operating System reinstallation
CD".

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

why don't you just clone your existing drive to the one you want to
replace it with?

 

[DL]

And if the o/s has been installed on another sys, prior to installing this
hd, it wont work either without a repair install