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lp41

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hi,

i'm currently thinkin of replacin my old 80gb hard drive with a new 160gb hard drive. wot i'm wonderin is that, are there anything i need 2 check b4 i buy a new hard drive eg. wud it support my motherboard (if it has anything 2 do with the motherboard....)???

cheers!

(I've read the hdd 101 but it's quite confusin, lol)
 
If you are currently running an ide type hard drive you would simply install the drive the same way the old was seen. As long you connect the ide cable and set the jumper to master and plug in the same connector used on the present drive that would run the same way the old did as long as the new drive is an ide drive and not a SATA. The board will recognise it the same way.
 
well just checked that my old hard drive is an IDE type hard drive, Ultra-DMA and my motherboard says ATA 100/66/33. So does that mean i can only get IDE type hard drives and not SATA/ SATA II???
 
The specifications on the make and model you have will show if you have onboard SATA controllers. For other installations you would need to add in a controller card for SATA or RAID type arrays. What is the make and model board you are running there?
 
PC eye said:
The specifications on the make and model you have will show if you have onboard SATA controllers. For other installations you would need to add in a controller card for SATA or RAID type arrays. What is the make and model board you are running there?
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lp41 said:
well just checked that my old hard drive is an IDE type hard drive, Ultra-DMA and my motherboard says ATA 100/66/33. So does that mean i can only get IDE type hard drives and not SATA/ SATA II???
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Hahaha. I've seen that before. The best one I've seen is a fart wall.. All kinds of different buttons on it. I just forgot the link for it.
 
lp41 said:
well just checked that my old hard drive is an IDE type hard drive, Ultra-DMA and my motherboard says ATA 100/66/33. So does that mean i can only get IDE type hard drives and not SATA/ SATA II???
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The question asked was about the make and model to find out whether or not the board does or doesn't have SATA capability. You don't want to buy a 160gb drive and find out it's the wrong one due to being SATA and not having support for that. :eek: ! An ide drive drive wouldn't see problems there.
 
Well obviously. We already figured that one out. He has PATA. He's using PATA. His motherboard didn't say SATA (well, at least not that he told us anyways). So he might as well buy PATA. No real difference in performance anyways, unless he was considering a Raptor or something.
 
k cheers, but here's another question:
I've opened up my extrenal hard drive (my back up) and found that it's a PATA 133 160gb hard drive. would i b able to replace my 80gb for the 160gb one even thou my motherboard doesn't support 133. i just pressume that if i did put the PATA 133 160gb, it wud just run at a slower rate; my max which is 100?? correct???

thk you

p.s it seems like that my motherboard doesn't support SATA
 
Most newer eide drives will run on ATA33, 66, 100, 133 boards without seeing any problems in backwards capability as seen with some older models. As long as the drive has the standard socket for the ide cable connector and you set the drive's jumper to the correct position of master if alone, slave or cable select(may be needed on some systems) on the middle conector is another drive is present as the master(host drive) that will work out for you.
 
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