Need Help installing an IDE drive alongside a SATA drive
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Posted by DigitalMist on March 30, 2007, 10:06 am
Please log in for more thread options a SATA hard drive. I would like to install my old IDE hard drive as a slave drive alongside it and be able to access the files on it. I've never installed a slave drive before so any help will be greatly appreciated. My OS is Windows Vista if that is important. Please let me know if you need anymore information about my system to help me. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by CBFalconer on March 30, 2007, 10:54 am
Please log in for more thread options My condolences on the Vista. You can blow it away and install something more reasonable, such as Ubuntu, or even W98. See links below. There is probably an IDE drive connection for the CDROM. You can set the CD as master, and the IDE drive as slave, on that line. -- <http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt>
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Posted by kony on March 30, 2007, 3:11 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:06:21 -0000, no@spam.invalid
(DigitalMist) wrote: >I recently bought a new computer which has
>a SATA hard drive. I would like to install my old IDE hard drive as a >slave drive alongside it and be able to access the files on it. I've >never installed a slave drive before so any help will be greatly >appreciated. My OS is Windows Vista if that is important. Please let >me know if you need anymore information about my system to help >me. There's nothing unusual necessary. Install the drive, jumper it correctly per it's position on the PATA cable, and if there is another device on same PATA cable, adjust that device's jumpers if needed, plug in power and you're done... turn on system and boot the OS. However, if your old drive is still in a computer, it could be easier to just copy the files over a network, or use a USB thumbdrive or CDR/DVD/ etc., to move them to the new drive. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by DaveW on March 30, 2007, 6:57 pm
Please log in for more thread options ONLY PATA harddrives can be a Master or a Slave. SATA drives have no
equivalent of Master/Slave. -- DaveW ___________ >I recently bought a new computer which has
> a SATA hard drive. I would like to install my old IDE hard drive as a > slave drive alongside it and be able to access the files on it. I've > never installed a slave drive before so any help will be greatly > appreciated. My OS is Windows Vista if that is important. Please let > me know if you need anymore information about my system to help > me. > | |||||||||||||
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Posted by CBFalconer on March 30, 2007, 10:30 pm
Please log in for more thread options DaveW wrote:
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> ONLY PATA harddrives can be a Master or a Slave. SATA drives have > no equivalent of Master/Slave. Please do not top-post. Your answer belongs after (or intermixed with) the quoted material to which you reply, after snipping all irrelevant material. See the following links: -- <http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>
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> I recently bought a new computer which has a SATA hard drive. I
> would like to install my old IDE hard drive as a slave drive
> alongside it and be able to access the files on it. I've never
> installed a slave drive before so any help will be greatly
> appreciated. My OS is Windows Vista if that is important. Please
> let me know if you need anymore information about my system to
> help me.