someone mentioned the pain of having to repoint all the installers to the non standard D:\programfiles
you can slip stream this setting in, or alternitively, just manually edit the registry after the install. Since you are getting a new harddrive, and will likely be reinstalling your os onto it, there is no reason not to slipstream your copy of xp.
just add these lines to the winnt.sif file either on the slipstreamed cd, or on the floppydisk’s answer file
ProgramFilesDir="C:\My Program Files"
CommonProgramFilesDir="C:\My Program Files\My Common Files"
ProfilesDir=“C:\Documents and Settings”
changing them appropiately.
the beauty of slipstreaming, is that windows uses these right from the get-go while instaling it… for me, program files never existed.
now its only a matter of relocating the swap file, and the temp directory, and violla, you can have a 1.5gig windows install partition.
only very old, or very poorly designed programs have problems.