I have an 80gig and want to get a new 300gig hdis there anyway i can just copy everything over and then somehow update the registry? or ?? what is the most painless way of doing this?thanksbsciao!Brian S

I've used Drive Mapper from Powerquest (partition magic utility) when going from one stand-alone partition to another. Have not tried doing it from the C:Programs default installer directory as I move everything from one partition to another and not only selected programs. That makes it easier to say everything on "D:" is now on "G:" for example.Most handy when changing the logical drive letter of an optical drive.

Check out ACRONIShttp://www.acronis.co.uk/homecomputing/products/migrateeasy/RegardsJim

Are you talking about FS9 only? I did a transfer a few years ago. What you do is - assuming the new hard disk you will do a clean install; I would install FS2004 in the same path you had it before on the fresh drive, then delete the FS2004 folder, and then copy the FS2004 folder to the new drive. I used this once before and it worked (FS2004 was in the registery). Make sure you copy your FS9 Application settings (Fs9.cfg) and any other files that are associated with, but may not necessarily be in the FS2004 root folder.