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April 28th 08, 04:09 PM
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Problem connecting IDE and SATA HDDs
Hi, I have recently purchased a new PC which has a SATA harddrive fitted as standard (running Vista Home Premium from this drive). I want to connect my old IDE hard-drive - a 180GB IBM DeskStar IDE drive - but simply cannot get it to work in my new computer... Is there any special combination for which SATA slot you connect the new drive to/jumpers on the old IDE drive/or even drivers that need to be installed etc... I know that the new drive has power as it is warm when the PC starts and that the SATA cable is fine as I tried it with the new drive. Thanks very much! -- alex99 
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April 28th 08, 04:59 PM
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Problem connecting IDE and SATA HDDs
You need to open your motherboard's BIOS
and enable PATA support. -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows Desktop Experience - Windows Vista Enthusiast --------------------------------------------------------------- "alex99" wrote in message ... Hi, I have recently purchased a new PC which has a SATA harddrive fitted as standard (running Vista Home Premium from this drive). I want to connect my old IDE hard-drive - a 180GB IBM DeskStar IDE drive - but simply cannot get it to work in my new computer... Is there any special combination for which SATA slot you connect the new drive to/jumpers on the old IDE drive/or even drivers that need to be installed etc... I know that the new drive has power as it is warm when the PC starts and that the SATA cable is fine as I tried it with the new drive. Thanks very much! -- alex99
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April 28th 08, 08:49 PM
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Problem connecting IDE and SATA HDDs
You said nothing about having an IDE port on the M/B of your new computer.
You can't connect an IDE drive to a SATA port. If you don't have a legacy IDE port on the M/B you can not use the drive without an IDE add-in board. "alex99" wrote in message ... Hi, I have recently purchased a new PC which has a SATA harddrive fitted as standard (running Vista Home Premium from this drive). I want to connect my old IDE hard-drive - a 180GB IBM DeskStar IDE drive - but simply cannot get it to work in my new computer... Is there any special combination for which SATA slot you connect the new drive to/jumpers on the old IDE drive/or even drivers that need to be installed etc... I know that the new drive has power as it is warm when the PC starts and that the SATA cable is fine as I tried it with the new drive. Thanks very much! -- alex99
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April 29th 08, 08:49 AM
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Problem connecting IDE and SATA HDDs
Thanks for your help - I couldn't find a setting anywhere in the BIOS to enable PATA as such, but after changing a few SATA settings in the BIOS and changing the jumpers on the IDE drive, I have managed to get it working... -- alex99
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