i WANT to move my Windows Vista HOME premium installation to a larger HDD. I have tried this in the past using partition software to try and clone the HDD but it didnt work.

if i were to run Ubuntu off a CD and then copy the whole HDD to the new destination, would i bee able to just change the boot priority from the BIOS and run it with no problems or are there extra steps.

please note, NO other hardware will be changedCopying will not work...
The easiest solution for this is to use the new HDD manuf. utilities CD ( ships with the drive) to "clone the old drive to the new drive.
Hook up the new drive as a slave.
Boot to the HDD utility and select the "clone" option
Power down.
Remove the old drive and hook up the new drive as master.
Boot up and you're done.thanks, ill try that
i tired cloning with other programs but it CREATED a partition that was the same size as the original drive but i couldnt expand it to fill the whole drive
im assuming that's what is going to happenDone!
i realised that the reason i couldnt extend the partition was because the HDD had bad SECTORS! i downloaded a free prgram that fixed them then extended the partition... problem solved!

just a quick afternote, is there any problem with deleting the old installation?
im assuming NONE of the old files are being usedi tried to format the HDD but it said that some programs were using it.
how can i find out which programs are using the HDD so i can modify them to use the new one?