transferring windows from one hard drive to another...

Most likely, I'm going to replace my hard drive (it's already began dieing). How would I be able to completely copy a windows install with all programs/etc, including the registry, to the new hard drive? I'm aware of hooking up the new one as slave to do this, but how can I transfer the entire hard drive copy (including boot record, all that) to the new one?

Also, my motherboard is 6 years old (made in 98-99'ish), holding a P3 550 mhz. Will this motherboard be able to support a 160gb harddrive?

 

to make a bootable copy of the hard drive, its easiest to use a program like Acronis TrueImage http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2236

other programs will do it, but this one is well liked around here.

what is the model of your motherboard? I will try to check if it has large disk support.

 

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/9546/mobo0md.jpg

Hopefully that'll tell you what you need to know.

 

You can try with Noton Ghost or Seagate Utility Drive