IDE Hard Drive to sata motherboard

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aj_8920

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Hi guys,

The other day i bought a new mobo, to soon realize that my ide hard drive won't work with the new boards, because they are only sata...

what can i do now? should i:

1. buy a sata to ide converter
2. buy a pci slot card to obtain more ide channels
3. use my external usb hard drive case to plug in my hard drive and not have any in the case...(is that even possible)?? :confused:

thanks a ton :)
 
I find it rare that any board comes without one ide channel since ide optical drives as well as older ide hard drives still need a place at times on the newer boards out. I'm surrently running Vista on an Asus M2N-E model board with 6 sata ports along with XP on the first of two sata HDs and two optical drives(one also ide).

Using an external usb enclosure is generally for storage or data retrieval not ffor booting a system. The drive that will boot a system through the usb bus is a usb type flash or memory drive.
 
PC eye said:
I find it rare that any board comes without one ide channel since ide optical drives as well as older ide hard drives still need a place at times on the newer boards out. I'm surrently running Vista on an Asus M2N-E model board with 6 sata ports along with XP on the first of two sata HDs and two optical drives(one also ide).

Using an external usb enclosure is generally for storage or data retrieval not ffor booting a system. The drive that will boot a system through the usb bus is a usb type flash or memory drive.
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ya i have one for the op. drives but non for hard drives, only sata ports, so what should i do (instead of tossing out my ide hdd :rolleyes:)
 
Well all you can do is get a Sata harddrive or lose a IDE rom drive and plug it in the IDE channel or get a Sata rom drive and replace one of the IDE rom drives or like you said get a PCI IDE card.
 
When putting the new build together I planned to leave an opening for at least one ide drive by simply buying one of the optical drives as the sata dvd burner while still going for an ide cd writer. This allows me to slave an ide HD out of an old case for data rescue or copying files onto it.

Eventually Vista or the next version if not 64bit edition will go on the second 500gb sata here once I grab one of the new WD 1tb GP models out. Of couse splitting up the 250gb ide for some Linux distros was another thought. The sata to ide convertors are for running sata drives on an ide board with no sata ports.
 
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