I want to install PATA HDD on the machine which previously had SATA HDD. Please assist?

Question

I have dell Optiplex GX520 which has a problem with the SATA HDD. ince i can find the SATA HDD i thought of replacing it with the ATA (IDE) HDD and unfortunately my computer can not dectect my IDE drive and it has also lost the IDE CD-ROM. Please what do i do so that i have this SATA completely out of my PC and replace it with the IDE /ATA Hard Disk Drive.

Answer 1

Just use the IDE connectors on the mainboard ... the same ones used for the CD drive. Any PC that supports a regular CD or DVD drive will support a PATA drive.

PATA is just a renaming of the old regular ATA interface.
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA )

I don't know what you mean by " has also lost the IDE CD-ROM".
Perhaps the problem on your unit is with the mainboard & not with the drives.

Have you verified that all BIOS settings are correct ?

When did these problems start ? Had you or someone else just previously modified any BIOS settings or perhaps unwittingly damaged the mainboard when trying to add/remove any hardware ?

If not all you need to do is disable SATA in the BIOS & make sure that the IDE controllers & channels are all enabled.

regards,
Philip T

Answer 2

sure, they ar interchangable. SATA transfers at a million.5GB/s and SATA ll transfers at 3.0GB/s. till you do extreme gaming or some thing that needs a competent difficultcontinual, the SATA will artwork large. in case you plan on paying for a SATA ll (i desire to advise it) i could propose the Western digital Caviar SE sixteen 250GB. you will get it from newegg. it has a 16MB cache as a replace of an 8MB cache so it is going to circulate two times as lots from the HDD to your mobo in one bypass.

Answer 3

Please check if your Motherboard supports a PATA drive.

The latest motherboards no longer have support for PATA HDD's,
there is a difference in pin sizes.