...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
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