[stylin19a]

yep...all doable, and with minimum effort,

here's a decent article, emphasis on changing IDE controller to Standard. (Saves a lot of headaches with XP finding\installing drivers for your new hardware)

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/07/09/move-windows-xp-hard-drive-or-change-motherboard-without-getting-blue-screen-of-death/

Here's also decent “how to”

http://www.theeldergeek.com/move_harddrive.htm

Good luck...when in doubt...dont! ask someone

[Gondring]

ping for later reference