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Thanks for the thoughts guys. I have been playing chief cook,bottle washer,chauffeur and nurse for my ill Wife for a long time now. I now know where the old sayin, A woman's work is never done, comes from.!!!!!!!!!! Does anyone know anything about cholla from way back????

You are correct in that it could assign the drives as anything under win7 it will not effect your xp in the slightest though and it doesn't matter a whole lot I would probably do it under Win7 just to make sure I don't erase or move a critical system partition Also once assigned you can always change drive letter assignment under win7 you shouldn't even need a reboot as they won't be system disks

I was going to edit my prior post, but for some reason there is no EDIT buttion on it. I did some more web searching and found some information on drive letter assignment and it appears there is no consistant method in Windos when it assigns drive letters, so I just hope the results will be understandable when I install Win 7 on the new drive. I already created an image backup of my WinXP C: drive just in case something bad happens. Now I just need to wait another week or so till the new hardware and Win 7 OS are delivered. Will report back when its done. Thanks for replies

Np and sorry I was on my phone yesterday and didn't see your other question till now. When you install your new hd and boot up your winxp it will assign a new letter to it after all your current partitions once you install win 7 on your new hard drive it will read all those partitions and assign them a letter automatically but it should not effect the lettering under winxp. Under win7 the hard drive it is installed on will be C: drive even if on your Winxp it reads as Z: Hope that made a little sense

Yes it is just as simple as you have read basically what will happen is a new boot partition will be written with a newer bootloader and will ask what os to boot when you first turn your pc on if you make no selection it will boot off your default os which you can set under msconfig