Upgrading Hard Drive, How do I bring my boot camp setup with me?

I'm putting a larger hard drive in my macbook. I've installed Leopard, migrated over my existing account, but I don't know how to bring my boot camp setup with me. Suggestions?

Hi Christian,
depending on the file system that you use with your BootCamp Windows, two possibilities:
If using FAT32 : http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=717201&start=0&tstart=0
If using NTFS : http://www.twocanoes.com/winclone/
Good Luck
Stefan

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