how to replace c drive??

Yes indeedy you can

Just get your self a new bigger drive
Power down your PC put in your new drive
Get some partitioning software ( I use acronis disk director )
Use the software to copy from one drive to the other
After you have finished you can power down and remove your other older drive if you wish
After you have copied over your data you might need to tell the bios to boot from the new drive
 
Electroshadow said:
im looking to replace my c drive as its only 80gb 5400rpm

problem is can i transver everything without having to do fresh installs of everything?
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Make sure you backup everything first before hand, just to be on the safe side. You could use the backup program within Vista which I use all the time and highly recommend it. you could backup the entire system, replace the HDD and then just boot from the Windows Vista CD and then coose repair and restore entire PC (something like this) and then reimage the HDD again on the new HDD. Although you have to take into account the partition is the same as the original one, otherwise the restaore will not work.

Simple
 
OVC said:
Make sure you backup everything first before hand, just to be on the safe side. You could use the backup program within Vista which I use all the time and highly recommend it. you could backup the entire system, replace the HDD and then just boot from the Windows Vista CD and then coose repair and restore entire PC (something like this) and then reimage the HDD again on the new HDD. Although you have to take into account the partition is the same as the original one, otherwise the restaore will not work.

Simple
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That's the long way to do it!

Use wombraider's idea, much easier.

I've used Acronis to Image a disc to a new one, it works well. Once you have cloned your small drive onto the new one, you can use a partition manager program (e.g. Partition Magic) to enlarge the small partition you have created to cover all of the disc if that's what you want.
 
Ghosting the disk normally works fine, especially on XP. I've done it dozens of times. Vista is a bit more picky, and will probably need reactivation after it detects the change of disks, but it should reactivate ok none the less.
 
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