As some of you may have heard, I purchased a computer from Dell a little while ago. In order to save money, I decided to take the hard drive out of the computer I currently have now and stick the cheapo one that I bought from Dell back into this crappy (ahem) Packard Bell computer, so that I can give it away without having it be useless (I'm giving it to my parents)! Here's what I plan to do: (for the sake of simplicity, my current hard drive will be hard drive "A" and the one I'm getting from Dell will be hard drive "B". Hard drive "A" is much better then "B", by the way)

#1 - Put hard drive "A" into computer "B"

#2 - Transfer a folder that contains all the important stuff (like games off the internet that would take too long to re-download) from hard drive "A" to hard drive "B"

#3 - Reformat hard drive "A" (Microsoft and Packard Bell between them put so much crap on this hard drive that there's really no way to get any use out of it without starting over)

#4 - Re-install Windows onto hard drive "A" and then transfer that folder with all the important stuff from hard drive "B" back to hard drive "A"

#5 - Make sure everything actually works.

#6 - Now I do one of 2 things:
a: Put hard drive "B" into computer "A". My other plan is
b: Reformat hard drive "B". Get a really old 500MB hard drive from the basement ("C"). Put hard drive "C" into computer "A". Reformat hard drive "C" and then install windows and my parent's tax program onto hard drive "C". Set up hard drive "B" in computer "B" as a slave.

(I like option 'b' better)

There's only one teeny weeny itsy bitsy problem.

I have no idea how to move a hard drive from one computer to another, or set them up as master/slave. I'm not even sure which connecter goes where!

So....

Anyone want to give me free technical support and save me two months worth of phone calls? Please? Pretty please? With sugar on top?

-Ka"Amazingly, this doesn't void the warrenty"z!