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RE: Upgrading the hard drive
When deciding whether to add the new drive as secondary (which many have suggested), you should take in account the age and relative performance of the current 80GB drive.
The speed of hard drives, although discussed less often than capacity, varies as well -- and is important to the overall system performance. If there is a difference, you want your system volume (Windows and applications) on the faster drive.
Assuming you decide to replace the drive (after which you could still format the old drive and add that as secondary), Maxtor offers their "MaxBlast" software that can, among other things, copy contents of one drive to another. You can download it from Maxtor's website. At least one of your drives must be Maxtor's to use the software -- but that's what you said you are getting.
MaxBlast might be able to move your "recovery" partition too, but my assumption would be that it won't. Before you begin, see if there is any way for you to burn a recovery CD or DVD from it -- there usually is. If not, you can either not worry about it and order the recovery discs from HP if/when you need them, or just keep the 80GB drive around for recovery purposes.
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