Harddrive help

Ok, I just bought a brand new harddrive and am running windows xp. I am trying to turn my new HD into my master harddrive and my current Master into the slave.

I am installing my new drive as the slave to swap everything over to it from my old drive but I am wondering if this will cause problems.

I found this walkthrough online and have bolded the areas I am confused about.
You will need to partition and format the new drive. Make sure that the partitions are mapped similarly to the old hard drive. Next you will choose View/Options in Windows Explorer then Select, Show All Files. Deselect Hide MS-DOS file extensions for file types registered, and then click OK. Go to the root directory of the C: drive and then select all files and sub-directories. De-select the swap file, as in most systems you may encounters unwanted problems.

Deselect Windows directory for a minute and then copy everything to the F drive, except for Windows directory. Select F: drive or whatever letter your new drive's primary partition is.

Click paste icon in the toolbar (Edit/Paste or type CTRL-V). Now all you will need to do is watch as your hard drive recovery transfers your data. After your hard drive recovered files from your old drive, then shutdown your unit. You will need to open the back of your computer and swap the connectors linking to the drives. Change your Jumper settings to make the new drive your master drive.

Can someone maybe walk me through this as I am not sure what some things are or what they mean for me to do.

The way I would do it is ....
- Use the new drive as the master
- and plug the old drive in as a slave
- install windows on the new master
- when you boot up you will have 2 hard drives windows will run from your master
- copy your data from your slave to your master
- then using windows disk management format the slave

The article you are reading seems beat.... During windows install you can partition and format......

Anyway just do what i stated up top if you encounter any problems you can get my IM screennames from here or just post back here

If I try to install windows on my new drive instead of transfering over from my old one won't it just tell me my code is already in use because you can only register Windows XP once.

No it will allow you to install Windows XP on the new hard drive even though you have it installed on another pc.