Transferring winXP to a new Hard Disk

[fauxpas1900]

I want to copy my XP Home boot drive in its entirety (including the OS) to a new hard drive and have my PC boot from the new drive.

Which is the best, not necessarily free, downloadable program to use for simplicity, reliability?

What are the issues one faces during transferring winXP from one hard drive to another?

Thanks in advance.

[Disk_Contented]

Depends if the two hard drive types are the same. IDE to IDE worked every time. IDE to SATA didn't go well.
I use Ghost 8 to make an image. Fit the new HD, replace the image back to the HD, done.
Basically any backup/Image creation app will do it, or a Hard drive clone tool.

[fauxpas1900]

The source disk is SATA. With 3 partitions, containing 2 XP installations.

Source: 160 GB

1. Partition 1 : WinXP home 70 GB
2. Partition 2 : Winxp home 70 GB
3. Partition 3 : winxp extended partition 20 GB.
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The destination disk....I guess I will buy a 1 TB SATA disk.
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So what do you say? Will Norton Ghost 8 transfer BOTH my winxp installations correctly?

(There is another twist in the situation. There is a 3rd hard disk installed on the PC, with its own winXP. I dont use it, but its a part of the boot info when the PC starts. Will this affect the situation in any way?)

[Disk_Contented]

Image the whole drive, or image each partition seperately and replace in corresponding partitions on the new drive.
Images dual boot with no problems for me.

I would choose the single partition image route, since if only one partition goes wrong, only one partition need to be restored. Plus you can backup singly in the future.
See these:
http://www.bay-wolf.com/ghostclone.htm
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=418