OK, here's the situation as it stands. I have bought a new hard drive and have installed XP Pro from a CD I had in the office. When all was up and running I connected the old hard drive to the CD drive of the PC and when I select 'start' - 'my computer' I can see the old HDD displayed in there as 'D' I can also see that it has 22 of the 80Gb remaining so it would appear that all the old files are in there. I have tried to copy a few of these onto the desktop but I get various errors which wont allow the progs to start. Whilst comparing the 2 HDD's I noticed the new one had been formatted as FAT32 whilst the original is NTFS. I am now attempting to re-format the new HDD as NTFS (using a thorough format not 'quick) but it seems to be hanging at 99%. I have tried 3 times to reformat but each time it has stayed at 99% for nearly 40 minutes. Should I leave it longer or settle for the 'quick' option ? Assuming I can get this problem sorted whats involved in copying old files and apps across from the old drive?
Thanks in advance