2006-12-27 13:20:09 · 5 answers · asked by wild4040 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Like the others have said, as long as your motherboard supports both interfaces you can use IDE and SATA at the same time. You cannot, however, load Windows on both and expect it to work. Doing this would confuse your system and most likely you'd be staring at a blank screen.
2006-12-27 13:30:53 · answer #1 · answered by Russ M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. Just make sure you have the capability for both on your motherboard; if you have two SATA connectors and want to do one SATA and one IDE, you'll either need an adapter (recommended), a new motherboard (not recommended), or another SATA HD to replace the other (also not recommended; you probably have stuff on the IDE drive you don't want lost).
In addition, as said earlier, don't install windows to both drives unless you want to make a dual-boot system with two different versions of windows (i.e. Windows 98 on the IDE when formatted as FAT32, and Windows XP on the SATA when formatted as NTFS).
2006-12-27 22:02:55 · answer #2 · answered by Travis W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your motherboard can support IDE and SATA. Both drives must be connected to its own interface. You can connect the 2 drives together on one cable if you have an adapter (IDE to SATA or Vice versa).
2006-12-27 21:25:17 · answer #3 · answered by Ted B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most definately. I use them both at the same time.
2006-12-27 21:22:16 · answer #4 · answered by Michael R 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I recommend you to use SATA only for HDD and IDE for CD-ROM, DVD-ROM-RAM etc...
2006-12-27 21:23:57 · answer #5 · answered by JMG 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋