Need Help installing an IDE drive alongside a SATA drive

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DigitalMist

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.
 
DigitalMist said:
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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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.

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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.
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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.
 
ONLY PATA harddrives can be a Master or a Slave. SATA drives have no
equivalent of Master/Slave.
 
DaveW said:
ONLY PATA harddrives can be a Master or a Slave. SATA drives have
no equivalent of Master/Slave.
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