*Install the old drive in there just long enough to move everything to new c: and make sure everything is working fine from new sys drive, then throughly wipe clean old drive.

*That sounds like a good idea to me. 

Bar-Code, my current computer doesn't have a burner of any sort. 

And the cost was so high because the video card cost $768.00, the 2 Seagate Barracuda hard drives were 459.99 each, and 8 GB of RAM(2 kits) was about $400.00, the sound card was about $100.00, Windows XP pro $149.99, motherboard $355.00, labor. It all adds up. Butif I did it right, I shouldn't need a new one for years.