Can I boot from hardrive on PCI card?

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jonathanx54

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I want to get a motherboard that has only 1 IDE hook up, but I have two things that need to be hooked up to an IDE connector. I have disk drives and hardrives that require IDE, and I don't want to buy anything else right now.

So, Is it possible to hook the disk drives into the IDE connector on motherboard, then hook up the hardrives through a converter PCI card? Will I be able to boot from a PCI coverter card?
 
One thing that you could do is to buy a external encloser kit for that drive and then you can boot from usb
 
jonathanx54 said:
I have two things that need to be hooked up to an IDE connector.
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You can plug two drives into a single IDE port. The IDE cable generally has Master and Slave inputs.

http://www.primerpc.com/hardware/csel.jpg

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Yeah, I have two disk drives and two hardrives, and they all use IDE connectors. I'm just trying to save some money for now until I can upgrade later.
 
kc-atl said:
One thing that you could do is to buy a external encloser kit for that drive and then you can boot from usb
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Wouldn't that eventually wear out the usb slot and burn out? One of the USBs on my computer stopped working, so I'm assuming that is what happened.
 
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