what im sure is a simple question but...

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...for the life of me i cant find the answer here,
im considering making the move from my western digital 200gb ide drive with some kind of sata hard drive ill make the decision which drive when i get the £££ gathered up to get one but back to my dilemma.
when i bought the pc i have it did'nt come with a system disk and to do a system recover i have to press f9 at the same screen that i use to get into the bios so what im wondering instead of forking out for an xp/vista os is there any way of transferring the os from my old hdd to my eventual new one and if at all possible not to delete any of my 124gb of info.
you would never guess im new at this would ya?

oh one thing i do know is that my motherboard has 2 unused sata ports
 
You'll be able to clone the entire 200Gb drive onto a new SATA one with Ghost or TrueImage. The question though becomes whether the F9 system recovery option would still work with a SATA drive. This is pretty much impossible to answer without trying it.
 
ok i hear you so then if i were to buy a sata drive and run it along side my ide drive in raid 0/1*what my motherboard supports*(for games and such and keep my ide drive for the os and some programs) would the sata drive's speed increase be cut down by the original drives speed because if not then i could just keep it
 
You should be able to run the SATA drive as a single disk without having to get involved in RAID. There won't be any perfomrnace penalty per se by doing this but the SATA drive will be the quicker of the two so it makes sense to clone everything across onto this and then use the IDE simply for backups and storage.
 
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