I have a Seagate 80gb Hard Drive that is a IDE. I just bought a new DELL Dimension E310. It has a 80gb SATA 2 Hard Drive. The mother board does not have anyplace where I can connect my older IDE Hard Drive . Is there anyway that the older IDE Hard Drive can be connected to my new computer as a secondary Hard Drive?
Someone told me that I can use one of the CD ROM connections to connect to my Hard Drive, will that work?
If not what can I do?
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Jump to Postso your computer only has one EIDE channel? that's starnge. yes you can use the cd-rom's channel, just make sure you set up the cd-rom as slave and the hd as master, or the other way around, doesn't really matter
Jump to Postwell, if you have a hard drive and cd-rom in one channel, then you can only have one cd-rom. I just think it's strange for a computer to come with one IDE channel, i don't think i've ever seen it.
Jump to Posthey if you really wanted to have more cd-rom drives, you can get a SCSI adapter and with that you can have up to 14 devices hooked to your computer, including: cd-rom, hd, tape drive, pretty much whatever you want. how ever, a SCSI setup is complicated for newbies or …
Jump to Postor, if you have a number of IDE devices, just go in for a PCI IDE add on card. The card provides you with 2-4 IDE channels.
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