Today I upgraded my hard drive from 40 GB to 80 GB. I used PowerQuest’s Drive Copy 4.0 to transfer the operating system and data from my old hard drive to my new hard drive. I made the new hard drive a slave drive for the data copy and then changed it back to a master drive. I did not have to reinstall anything.
I may use the old hard drive for a new version of Linux. My master drive is a removable hard drive so I can swap out drives to run different operating systems on the same machine. I currently run Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP, and Mandrake Linux on this system.