new hard drive

Hey, this is my first time here, and I've got a question for all of you. I have had the same old ~111GB hard drive for some time, and it has finally reached the end. There is about 9GB left on her, so fearing not being able to download anything i bought myself a new Western Digital 500GB. I put it in and everything works fine, but I am afraid I've been mistaken on my preconceptions about how things like this work. What I would really like to do is save everything on my 111GB and keep it usable/accessible, and have everything new save automatically onto my 500GB. Basically, I want the 500GB to be an extension of my old hard drive, with its own Program Files and My Documents and whatnot. Is there a way I can do this, or am I destined to be slightly disappointed?

You could copy ALL data onto the other hard drive and boot off that instead of the 111gb with some program (i.e- your Windows folder, Program Files, etc would be on your 500gb). I'm not 100% sure what program to use (I never had to do that actually) but I'm sure it'd work

what the poster above me said is impossible.

to OP. WHEN U GO TO INSTALL SOMETHING, CHANGE THE C: TO A F: OR WHATEVER YOUR NEW HARD DRIVE IS LABELED AS. its really not hard. also, right clicking=>new folder, renaming it to my documents, IS NOT HARD.

ffs