I've bought a Gateway PC that has 1 SATA Hard Drive, I have all my backup on a IDE Hard Drive, so I opened the PC and realized that the only IDE slot is connected to the CDROM drive, can I use it to connect my IDE HD to restore the information to the SATA HD?
2006-06-15 07:14:32 · 6 answers · asked by ecanseco 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
You certainly can. However, the cable that connects the CD drive to the motherboard is most likely an ATA33 cable. Your IDE hard drive is going to be either ATA100 or ATA133. This will bottleneck your harddrive speed, and make it so you can only access data from it at a theoretical 33MB/sec instead of the full 100 or 133/sec. Other than that, no problems. Good Luck
2006-06-15 07:37:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you can used the same cable.
However, if you plan on using both the IDE HD and CDROM together, make sure you set the proper master/slave configuration using the jumpers.
2006-06-15 07:23:54 · answer #2 · answered by MikeSideline 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To extend the answers a little further, the CD-Rom, is currently set as the master (that is a default setting). Your drive may be set as CS (cable select), change it to slave or change it to master and the CD-Rom to slave (doesn't really matter as either will work). Just don't leave the drive as CS.
2006-06-15 07:36:57 · answer #3 · answered by smgray99 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can. Install both hard drives (one on SATA one on IDE) and do your thing. We do it all the time.
2006-06-15 07:21:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, IDE and cd drive can share a slot/cable if necessary
2006-06-15 07:18:25 · answer #5 · answered by PersonW 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes y not.
2006-06-15 16:17:30 · answer #6 · answered by jaedi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋