I'm gonna be re-installing Windows soon

[DeeBye]

Congrats to your wife for the win.
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I like Robert Borden and I hope that he and all his clones visit my home again in the near future.



I wanted to blow the entire stack on Legos and beer, but my wife is the sensible one and allotted us $70 for computer upgrades and the rest goes in the bank. One of us is smart.

Anyhow, why not just image the old drive onto the new one?  Most retail drives come with the utilities to do so (at least, I know Maxtor does).  If the drive you got doesn't, I'm sure there's a site with a download for it (who knows, you might be able to find the prog on the Maxtor site).
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I've looked into this, but it's not possible in my situation. I promised my brother-in-law that he could have this old drive. I have to wipe it and hand it over before I will get the new larger drive.

Even if the timing hurdle didn't exist, I'd still want to reinstall Windows. It's been 3 years. It's about time.