Getting  bigger drive, what is the best workflow to avoid to install all?

Hello!
I have a new 400 Gb drive that i want to use to replace my 250 Gb; not a big deal since it takes 2 minutes to replace the drive, but i would love to avoid to re-install the OS, re install bootcamp partition and install again vista, plus move all my software and preferences from the old drive to the new....
I wonder if there is a more user friendly way to do so (like norton ghost, that save the image of a disk and restore it on a bigger drive without any issue, even if it has multi partitions on it).
Is anyone aware of a more efficient and less time consuming way to do so? all that i want is to swap the drive, copy everything on the bigger one and get advantage of the extra space
Thanks in advance for the help!

I see, thanks for the info!
This means that i gotta hope that someone will answer about the bootcamp part; otherwise in the worst case i simply create anew partition on the new drive and restore an image of Vista made with another software...hoping that it will not mess up the drive
Thanks for the suggestions!

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