Re: Install an IDE harddrive on a SATA Motherboard??
- From: TomYoung <tgyoung@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:16:38 -0700
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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computer, so I'm kinda out of date.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
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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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You're right. I was mis-reading what the BIOS was telling me and even
though I thought I was setting it to boot from the SATA drive it
surely was trying to boot from the IDE HD. I set the IDE HD to slave
and the optical drive to master, got the BIOS set correctly and BOOT!!
I probably should change the master/slave relationship (can't there be
performance problems with my setup?) but for the moment I'm happy to
be able to get my data back.
Thanks for the help.
Tom Young
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