Hard drive data swap?

[consumertalks]

Ok, here's the deal! I'm selling my Dell 2350 to a friend, and upgrading to a 2400. I know.. it's kind of pointless, but I have my reasons.

2350 has a 60GB HD, 2400 has a 40GB.

Q1: Can I just physically swap the drives, keeping all my info and the bigger drive from the 2350 in the 2400? (This would give the 2350 a new, clean drive as well.)
-Q1.1: The 2350's FSB is 400 and the 2400's is 533. Does that matter if I do a HD swap?
-Q1.2: Would this void the warranty from Dell?

Q2: Anyone know the biggest HD a Dimension 2400 can support? (I think the 2350 is 160GB.)

Q3: If I do buy a 160GB HD (or bigger), what's the easiest/fastest way to transfer the data from my two existing HD's?

Thanks for any and all help!

[Bill in SD, CA]

Maybe some help here: CHANGING MOTHERBOARDS AND KEEPING WINDOWS

As far as warranty voided: more than likely on both machines

Transfer files: hook it as slave and use the program to copy the drives.

Bill

[RayH]

There's no problem of DATA tranfer. But if you want to move the smaller drive intact, it's not the technical problem. Technically, it can be done.

The problem is copyright. You will wind up with two drives that have the SAME COPY of the OS. It becomes an activation problem.

[consumertalks]

Um.. no, I won't. XP is installed on both drives from the systems. I'm not copying anything. If I get a bigger drive, and copy the original to it, I'd obviously wipe the first. I'm not, and never have, discussed having 2 drives with the same OS.

[Prison Kids]

I added a larger drive to my system, with a legal copy of XP Pro, and followed this method to activate it legally w/o the hassle. Might help if you need to redo the drives.