is this possible?

[kamikaze77]

on my old computer i have a ide hard drive.(computer no longer works)
and the new computer im building they are satas.

could i hook up my ide as a slave to a friends computer. transfer everything on the harddrive to an external hard drive. then hook the external up to my new computer and transfer it onto the sata?

is this possible? or is there an easier way to do this?
i have a ton of music and pictures that i don't want to lose
theres like 34 gigs of music

 

[StrangleHold]

Yeah sure, if you have a IDE cable you could just plug it up to yours. That is if you have a IDE slot, most boards have atleast one.

 

[kamikaze77]

i just checked, and mine does not unfortunetly

 

[joh06937]

check to see if you have an ide port on your motherboard. if you do, then just find an ide cable with two inputs (hard drive and cd drive are both the same and both necessary for startup) on it and set the cd drive to slave and the hard drive to master, then transfer all of your files. that is actually how i have my system set up right now (not for long though ).

 

[StrangleHold]

i just checked, and mine does not unfortunetly

Odd, what board is this?

 

[kamikaze77]

Odd, what board is this?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130228

i looked over the specs (i have not yet recived it, i should probebly get it tommorrow. but it seems like its just sata

 

[Bodaggit23]

It does have an IDE slot. It's laying flat on the board instead of facing up.

Zoom in on the flat view of the board. Very top of the pic, towards center.

Specs are here, IDE is stated:

http://www.msicomputer.com/index.ph...ncat_no=1&cat2_no=&cat3_no=&prod_no=1812#menu

 

[kamikaze77]

it wasnt on the newegg spec list, so i figured it wasn't there

 

[Bodaggit23]

it wasnt on the newegg spec list, so i figured it wasn't there

It pays to research. Google is your friend. :good:

 

[StrangleHold]

Like Bodaggit23 said, its the black slot at the edge of the board right above the SATA slots.