adding bigger hard drive?.

hello. iam adding a bigger hard drive its an 20.gig, dont need very large hard drives. main one is 10.2 . prob is knowing the right place etc, and ribbon to use and such is necessary to me. want to format the other and partision if all necessary etc?. and transfer all over to the 20 gig. have ie7, win xp-pro w/sp-2 ie7, pld pc name matsonic.have a asus dvd-cd-rom s5220/as quiet track model. ty.

 

your main hd will be master, on the end of the ide cable. Your second hd will be slave, on the second connecter down. I have not used this program, but its free,

http://www.majorgeeks.com/HDClone_Free_Edition_d3809.html

 

Also most hard drives come with a CD that will move your system on to the new drive (clone). Notice Symantec (newer versions) may be disabled on the new drive and need to be reisntalled (happens to me no matter what cloning prg I use). If you didn't get a CD, go for the Ultimate Boot CD it has all the manufactures boot disk in one - nice to have around.