You state that the 5 year old drive is NOT fully booting into Windows. Disconnect the old drive from the computer cables. Use your brand new...
If you can set up the new drive on a USB port thenit is possible to fully migrate using Acronis True Image. I did it this way going from 60Gig...
I just upgraded my 60GB Fujitsu to a WD 120GB on our HP laptop. Flawless transfer of everything including XP. It is fully bootable and running...
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