[Davidja]

I have a dedicated XMBC machine with an SSD and a seperate Data drive. I installed XBMC onto the data drive but it seems pretty slow. Its a really high spec machine so am gonna start here.
I therefore in an attempt to speed it up want to XBMC to the SSD (I have the thumbnails stored remotely on a NAS) but don't want to lose my exiting settings by re-installing. Can someone please advise of the process to move to my SSD.
Thanks

[Chugiak]

A very handy tool to have would be the System Rescue CD on a USB drive.

http://www.sysresccd.org

I used it recently to back up and restore a HDD partition on my laptopwhen I swapped drives. The tool I used was the command line program named 'dd', which is very powerful but also risky if you aren't familiar with it and don't pay strict attention. A safer route to copy a partition is to use GPartEd, which also ships on the System Rescue CD. According to the GPartEd web site it provides for copying partitions. That seems like a safer method if one is unfamiliar with the Unix/Linux realm.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php

[Edit to add...]
Typically when you copy a partition it copies exactly. For instance I backed up an 80 GB HDD and then swapped it out for a 320 GB HDD. When I restored the partition it was 80 GB. Using GPartEd I then resized the partition to the full 320 GB without any loss of data.

[Davidja]

Sorry perhaps my query was'nt so clear. I simply want to move my XBMC (currently on d drive) to my C drive. Hope you can help.
Thanks