good evening all,
im a first time caller so be nice
i just have a couple of silly questions?
1) why not set the 5200 drive to be a master and the 7200 to be a slave ,boot the box, reformat the 7200 as d drive, copy the entire contents of c drive to d drive,shut down then remove c, reset the 7200 to master install it in place of c and reboot?

since the 5200 drive is slow it is prolly older and not so big ,the entire contents will fit on the 30 gig including the working copy of xp.
2) could you not install the 7200 drive alone and boot from a floppy boot disk? then reinstall xp. i know its a pain to rerun setup but i think you could do it like that too. iguess that is unless yer box has no floppy drive . does it?

anyway thanks fer listening to me spew awhile and i hope this might help

p.s, jimdbm


best of luck man
madmikey