Re: Install an IDE harddrive on a SATA Motherboard??



"TomYoung" <tgyoung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1184023920.434981.143920@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi all:

It's been several years since I've messed with the insides of my
computer, so I'm kinda out of date.

Anyway, the motherboard I'm looking at for a new computer build has 4
SATA connectors and 1 IDE connector. I'll buy a new SATA harddrive
for the boot drive but I have an IDE drive with *lots* of data on it
that I'd like to install too. This may be an elementary question, but
I *assume* I can install an optical drive and my old IDE drive on the
one IDE connection on the motherboard and that'll work OK so I can
transfer data and use the IDE for backup. Can't see why this wouldn't
work but I thought I should ask before committing to going this route.

TIA

Tom Young


that should work fine assuming its an 80-wire IDE cable you're using.
be sure to download all SATA drivers from the mobo manufacturers website
and put them on floppy disk just in case they're needed during the install.
On my mobo a SATA I drive installs smoothly with WinXP +SP2 but a SATA II needs
drivers.

.

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