Summary: Has anyone had any luck using the sata to ide converters in windows 2000? I have a sata cd drive that I would like to install in my all ide system so ...
Summary: I just bought an ABIT NF7-S v2.0 motherboard. It comes with a Serial ATA to EIDE converter named SERILLEL2. So I'm thinking I should take advantage ...
Summary: Hey guys. Hoping someone can help me out here... Doing a little job fixing a friend's Dell Latitude laptop. Loaded with the sasser virus and what I'm ...
Summary: Hi all, I set up my new computer Ive been gathering parts for over several months now and got everything going pretty well except for my Sata to IDE ...
Summary: I didn't notice that your Laptop is SATA. Below is an excerpt I found. So you have a couple of internal and a couple of external choices. It may co...
Summary: That is correct. One thing though, if you don't want to start over by reinstalling windows o nthe new drive try this: connect the new SATA drive to yo...
Summary: hey i got my 500bg hdd and it doesnt seem to want to format. It is a sata drive that i have hooked up with a sata to ide converter. I creat a 465.76gb...
Summary: I Buy one Sata to IDE converter, When i connect my Sata drive with the help of converter, Bios didn't detecting the converter and sata hdd ...
Summary: I bought a DVD-RW drive and went to install it and it is a SATA not IDE. IS there a converter or adapter I can get to hook this up without havingf to ...
Summary: look u would have to completely back up your system with the backup program provided in windows xp pro... if you are using home u would need a third p...
Summary: Yesterday I Installed a New Maxtor SATA drive in my son's computer (a new MB from ASUS). I also installed a used 40 Gig ATA IDE that I formatted to re...
Summary: got a hd on last legs i feel but do i go for a sata drive meaning i need to add a sata card as me board doesnt do sata and the converter cable to conv...
Summary: The EULA states one XP one PC, if you took a drive from another PC it would need a repair install and re-activation. Without an XP CD you are hitting ...
Summary: Thanks for your replys, I already knew that when the SATA HD is in the enclosure i wont get the speed of SATA because it will obviosuly be firewire or...
Summary: You can either use an SATA to IDE adapter/converter, or you can buy an SATA PCI controller card. It's amazing what you can find by doing a google sear...
Summary: Do these connectors work entirely satisfactorily New comp has SATA MB, would like the use of existing IDE HDs. Don't know anyone to ask who has used t...
Summary: hi there i am currently running 2 IDE hard drives and want to install a SATA drive can this be done with 0ne of the IDE HDD's still set as the master ...
Summary: Perhaps it may be time to think about SATA, or you may in the future. If you want to continue using your existing IDE drives in motherboards really de...
Summary: Regardless of the RAID level or any differences in drive capacity it's the RAID controller that creates the array. i.e. The Asus A8V deluxe has two on...
Summary: It doesn't, most transfer rates are at 66mb. The 2 most important things in a HDD is the cache size and rpms. Since almost every desktop hard drive ha...
Summary: K so i just read that you need special power supplys that have SATA Power Hookups, I also read there was a Serial ATA to IDE Converter so you can plug...
Summary: I've seen this Problem on the forum before, but haven't seen a satisfying answer to go with it :) I have a Biostar P4VTB Motherboard with serial raid....
Summary: My main HD craped out on me and instead of replacing it with the one they send back, I'm going to upgrade it. What I want to know is; Is there a big ...
Summary: Right now, I have all my IDE slots filled up. (2 ports, 4 devices) I want to add another harddrive. But I wondered could I have SATA and IDE at the sa...
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