Alright! I have successfully cloned my old IDE 80GB Windows XP drive into my new 300GB SATA HDD! I suppose I'll take my old drive, and reformat it with Ubuntu, and have a separate ubuntu system going since I have all the needed spare parts to build another PC now.
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After cloning the HDD, I have another question for you TechIMO'ers...
I have had another IDE drive (which was alongside my aforemented old C: HDD) used as a separate add-on hard drive to store my games and videos, since that HDD was slightly faster than my C: so it was better to load games off of at the time. Now that I have my new 300GB SATA drive, I would like to put a few of my most played games into there.
Now I've heard that you can't simply just "drag" the program files folders into another drive, because when you installed the program or game, it "ties" itself with the Windows registry. Is there an easy way for me to move a bunch of my "D:\Program Files" folders of my games into the "C:\Program Files" folder in my new HDD? I'd rather not want to go through the painstaking process of uninstalling, reinstalling, and updating every single game I want to be moved, but I will if I have no other choice... what have you got to say guys?