vista is nooooo. not yet. its still buggy as hell, has problems supporting older programs you may still want to use. go with xp. your old copy of xp from your old machine will still work on your new machine. if you dont have a disk copy of your old machine, any disk copy will do, and just put in your old serial number.

as re; moving 130 gigs of files? slowly. an outboard hard drive is a good option. just move things in chunks. not big chunks either. take your time and only take what you need.

make sure to find, and sign up with a forum that deals in the specifics of computer building and modding. you will get a lot of help from these types of places.  

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