sounds good to me, go for it man!

I've never used ghost (our company does, but who cares). I'm going to try Acronis Migrate Easy.

My plan is to pick up a 250 or 300 GB HDD on the way home tonight (Yay Microcenter!). Put it in place of my CD and/or DVD drive and copy my "backup drive" (160 GB 7200 RPM) over to it. Then I will format what is now my backup drive, and then migrate my system drive (80 GB 5400 RPM) onto it tomorrow. Much more room, and faster drives.

Worse comes to worst, I only have CD burning and labeling software installed ight now. Won't take me long to do a full reinstall if neccessary.

this is the bad thing with my main PC(*) it take me like a month or more to get it back to the way i had it befor i reinstalled, i have soo mutch stuff changed and installed :(

but o well, im used to it, i use to reinstall ever 3-6 months when i upgraded my computer every 3-6 months back when i was a big gammer

Well, if you wanted to just not change anything, and upgrade the drives, I could probably hook you up. But since you said your playing with the RAID setup and all,

Have fun!!!

Ok.. let me tell you how I go at redoin the pc.

first off.. C should be programs only for the most part.
One of your other drives should have a copy of all the drivers/downloaded programs etc that you have in the uninstalled version aka compressed.

Wipe C clean and run..all the stuff is already sitting right there in front of you and there'* no hunting around for that one driver or program.

yeah i also need to reinstall, i was going into CP to look at something and i get this radom IE error lol so yeah... i think windows in dieing


but im going to have Raid 0 for my two new 250'* SATA2
and im going to do raid 1 for my two 120GB sata1 drives for backups

my old SATA2 160'* i havn't figured out what im going to do with them :?

one problem, if you have raid 0 that doesn;t matter if your redoing the raid :(

but yeah thats what i do anyway, i have C: be like 30-40GB just for software and games. and other drive letters for all my other stuff

With that said..my C is a raid of 240 gigs...lol

That'* the way mine is set up. C: is for installed softwwre only

D: has my drivers folder, all my software disk images, and my "etc" (site backup, photos, MP3s, stuff I ain't sure what it is but don't wanna delete...)

Speeking of drives

anyone looking forword to BlackFriday theres always something good at one or two stores

last year i got 200GB ones for $40