thanks, but I still have yet to get answers from my previous post:
hanks for the help! a few more questions:
Do I need to format the drive or partition it? I read some guides that said this but you guys make no mention?
Also, if I were to do the second posters suggestion of installing the OSX on the new drive and transferring the data t the end, wouldn't I have 2 drives with OSX on them simultaneously? That can't be good is it?
EDIT: I tried to drag the new drive as the destination but it will not allow a green plus sign. Also, under the source HD, there's a second HD called XP that my dad named. He uses boot camp and parallels and I guess created an XP drive out of a single drive? So it looks like this
*OLD HD
-Main HD
-sub XP HD
and I can't drag the OLD HD, but I can drag the MAIN HD, but this mean I wont transfer the XP drive's data?!
You do need to format it as that other picture shows (post #5)
With any way you choose you will have two drives with the OS on it. It's not bad, but if you keep the old drive in one of the slots, it will automatically boot to that drive. To change the boot drive, go to System Preferences > Startup Disk and select the new drive as the startup disk. After you do this it might make you restart.
In disk utility you do not drag the icon all the way to the left, you drag the icon that is right under it, a little to the right. I put one of the pictures up (post #2). Look at the names in the source and destination fields and you will see what I am talking about.
It sounds like you have boot camp on there. In that case, after formatting the drive, partition it making the second partition how ever big you want to (this will be for XP). Then in disk utility, click on your new hard drive, click restore, and put the new partition you just made (for XP) as the destination and the old partition for XP as the source.