Copy and swap hard drive

I have a 160G hard drive in the disk 0 position of my controller. I bought
a 250G hard drive that I want to make my primary drive (in disk 0 postion)
and move the 160G to drive position 1 to use for storing backups, images,
etc.

The current 160G drive has four partitions. System C:, Programs D:, Data
E:, and Swap File F:,

Using Norton Ghost I copied C:, D:, E: and F;< to the 250G drive that I put
in Disk 1 position temporarilly. Now I have an exact copy of the small disk
on the larger disk. This part was easy (an perhaps a complete waste of
time).

The 250G drive now has four partitions J:, K:, L:, and M: I set J: to be an
active drive and loaded the Master Boot Record files to it.

Now I am in a log jam. How do I change the drive letters on the larger
drive that I want to be primary to and how do I get XP to boot up on the new
drive (I want it in Position 0 ultimately).

I tried taking the smaller drive out of the system and moving the new larger
drive to position 0 and then rebooting the machine. I thought that once
booted that I could change the drive letters. For some reason WindowsXP
froze on the welcome screen. I even tried to repair the installation on the
new drive but the reinstallation froze at the 27 minute mark.

Can anyone direct me to how to achieve this. Thanks.


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