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Switching Harddrives

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Hi guys
I want to upgrade my current harddrive, (i have 3 harddrives- Main C Drive = 28.6 Gig; F = 152 Gig; G = 74.5 Gig).
I just purchased a Diamond Maxtor HDD MAXTOR|16M SATA 7200 7L300S0 300 Gig and no longer have the desire to deal with the heat issues and messy wiring of 3 harddrives and 2 optical drives but I really DO NOT want to do a fresh install of everything...
So my question is, without removing any components/changing any settings from my computer, is there a way to ghost my current c:\ drive which is an ata/100 drive onto the new S-Ata drive without having any serious system problems? If so please describe the process...
I heard of a Norton ghost but I dont know if it will work...I do have a spare 70 gig external usb drive from my office which I can use as temp storage to move a ghosted image of my C drive to the new S-ata drive I ordered if thats even possible....what do you guys think?
 
Partition you Maxtor with a C: drive as large or larger than your current C:. Remaining space as data or whatever scheme takes your fancy.

Boot into BartPE or UBCD4Win with your SATA drivers loaded and use one of the HDD imaging plugins to ghost your system partition, then just drag and drop your data to the appropriate partition.
 
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