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Use Ghost to image the drive (old to new), make sure you have the volume labels correct (Ghost will report drive size).
Or just put the new drive as a slave, and keep the old one as it is, although drives do die so imaging the old onto the new is the way to go.
I use Ghost at work and home and the only problems I've had are occasional non-bootups but I have never, ever lost data. Since this is supposed to be an exact image minus the formatting data, it is theoretically impossible to lose data, the registry and all files are copied over.
Or just put the new drive as a slave, and keep the old one as it is, although drives do die so imaging the old onto the new is the way to go.
when putting a ghost image from one HD to the next, tid bits of information will be lost in one way or another. unless the hard drive is the same brand as the old one. information loss is inevitable.
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