Re: Install an IDE harddrive on a SATA Motherboard??
- From: "Sleepy" <nospam@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:54:31 GMT
"TomYoung" <tgyoung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1184099262.059544.166400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Jul 10, 6:06 am, "Sleepy" <nos...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:"TomYoung" <tgyo...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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 computer, so I'm kinda out of date.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
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It doesn't seem to be working, though I think it should.
M/B is SATA 2.0 specifications and boots fine from SATA drive with
Windows Vista installed and an IDE optical drive, jumpered Cable
Select, connected to end connector of an 80-wire IDE cable. When I
install the IDE HD to the middle connector (configured with Win XP,
jumpered Cable Select) the BIOS recognizes it OK, though it indicates
boot order as: Optical drive, IDE drive, SATA drive. I can change
boot order to start with the SATA drive, but computer will not boot.
I get a brief flash of Blue Screen and then the message that a
software or hardware change has caused the computer not to boot. No
option presented - start windows normally, start from last known good
boot, etc. - will get it to boot.
Went back and changed jumpers on the optical drive to master and the
IDE drive to slave, but same thing happens. I suppose I could keep
trying all the permutations of device to connectors and jumper
settings, but maybe someone can give me a clue here?
TIA.
Tom Young
firstly I never use 'cable select' - always configure optical drive as slave and hdd as master.
there's always someway to alter the boot order and select which hdd to boot from so take another look at the bios and refer to the mobo manual too. without knowing your mobo its impossible to be more specific.
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