Backup what you need onto DVD's and do a clean install on the new hard
drive. You can not move Vista from one computer to another, vastly
different, computer. That is basically what you are trying to do.

OR

After you have your new computer built, install the old drive as a slave
drive in the new computer and copy off what you need. Then delete the
partitions from the old drive and create new logical partitions for saving
your data to.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)



"Nate" <Nate@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4075F02F-68AC-486C-B088-3FED3C3BCFF1@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> All,
>
> I just installed Vista Ultimate about two weeks ago. I am debating on
> purchasing/installing a new CPU, RAM, Motherboard, and primary Harddrive.
> My
> question is: Is is going to be possible to clone my primary drive onto my
> new
> primary drive, install the new Mobo, CPU, RAM without major issues? Keep
> in
> mind I do have BitLocker enabled on my primary drive. Just curious to see
> if
> anyone has had success doing this yet with Vista Ultimate and BitLocker,
> or
> would it be better to start from scratch (fresh install). My concern comes
> from it being a new operating system from Microsoft, and re-activating the
> OS
> within a short ammount of time (about two to three weeks when I finally
> get
> all the parts together). I don't want to activate the piracy flag ;-)[/color]