Change hard drive and mirror it?

I have a compaq with windows XP installed. I know the hD is going to give out soon. If I buy a new hard drive, is there any way I can copy everything including windows, etc. to the other hard drive and then make it be the bootable one? I know there is software like Ghost or something but thats for mirroring from one machine to another.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Ghost will work for that, and is probably your best bet.

If you buy a 'retail' packaged drive (costs a little more, but comes in a nice box!) it should come with software to do that - but will probably only copy to drives by that manufacturer.

hmmm well u can use file and settings transfer wizard programs back it up then reload windows copy the backup file then execute it, you'll be back in no time.. good luck

I used one yesterday that the client bought at CompUSA. It created a self-extracing .exe, which installed on the new machine's drive (transferred over the network). Except for a few fonts from PhotoShop, everything worked.