Could someone give me a walkthrough to how to upgrade to a new computer, whilst keeping the exact data from the old hard drive. I will need to clone/ghost one hard drive onto another. Will I have to uninstall drivers for the old computer before I clone it? I'll also need some free software for ghosting/cloning. I have all the cables needed, so don't worry about that. Thank you in advance, RrR.

When I upgrade to a new computer I always simply save my data from the old and do fresh installs of my programs on the new one. I'll burn a DVD or CD with all the data I want to keep (makes a great backup as well). Then I make a list of the applications I had that I want to keep/reinstall.

Cloning/ghosting would only work if you had pretty much the same hardware devices on both computers which is unlikely since I assume your new computer has better, different hardware.

Hmm, the hardware part is easy to fix, I already said I got this worked out. But what I really want is not to loose all my settings!

What settings?
Do you know that your newly cloned computer may not boot at all due to too many hardware issues?

Thus, uninstalling the drivers. The settings I want to keep: Skins for xp, savefiles (A royal pain in the *** to find and copy) configurations for xp, registries etc.