How should I transfer all my games to my new drive?

[Bobmunkhouse]

Hi im looking at getting the "Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache" as I need more storage and the drive im using at the moment is not that fast.

What I want to do is leave Windows/downloads and the page filing on my old 120GB drive and have all my games and apps on the new fast drive. So my question is what’s the best way of doing this?

Sorry I have a few questions

1) Do I have to uninstall all the stuff and reinstall it or is there a better way?

2) I have an OEM windows XP could I install this on the new drive?

3) I don’t have SATA II on my motherboard does this matter?

4) Am I an idiot and should I be doing it a completely different way?

Thanks for any help

 

[Burly]

you will have to uninstall everything (games, apps) you want to put on the new drive. when installing just select the new drive.

also you could use tweakui (google it) from msn, you can change the location of special folders (like temp, program files, my music, documents etc)

if you want to move windows to the new drive, you will need to reinstall it. when installing (from booting with the CD) delete the contents of the other drive (make sure you backup everything before hand)

 

[Bobmunkhouse]

you will have to uninstall everything (games, apps) you want to put on the new drive. when installing just select the new drive.

also you could use tweakui (google it) from msn, you can change the location of special folders (like temp, program files, my music, documents etc)

if you want to move windows to the new drive, you will need to reinstall it. when installing (from booting with the CD) delete the contents of the other drive (make sure you backup everything before hand)

So reinstalled on a diffrent hard drive with an OEM Windows disk will work when I try to activate it?