Originally Posted by
BM08
you cant do that, end of.
Best thing to do is something like norton ghost as said, whatever happens it wont be as easy as swapping hard drives as you cant physically port over one operating system from one drive to another, it just wont work.
All i do is just back up all my documents/music/ vids to usb sticks, then if the worst happens i can just reinstall windows and then get all my stuff from my usb sticks, easy.
The my programmes i just rememeber as i dont have that many really.
You could just open notepad, type down the programmes you have and save it.
I can see no reason why if you had two identical HDD's (same make, model, part number etc) and did a complete carbon copy of one onto the other, that a simple switch out wouldn't work. Each drive would have the same identification, so the bios wouldn't even realise the swap had been made...