I would like to take the hd from a computer with a dead (and very expensive) power supply, and put it into a working omputer. Trouble is that the hd is a sata drive, and the motherboard in the working computer has no socket for a sata.
2007-07-03 00:55:38 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Depending upon the drive you have.. you might want to get a SATA control board.. I think they cost about $300.
Or.. follow this link.. they list some adapters for about $12
http://www.nextag.com/serv/main/buyer/OutPDir.jsp?search=ide+to+sata&OVKWID=19350110511&OVADID=5296225011
Just make sure you get the right one.. some are for SATA control boards to IDE drives.. some are for SATA drives to IDE controllers.
I left the link below for the search that I did
2007-07-03 05:52:30 · answer #1 · answered by ♥Tom♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they sell a conversion cable/adapter that goes from SATA to IDE. Not that expensive and works pretty well. To get true SATA speed though you might want to consider installing a SATA card in the machine.
2007-07-03 07:59:17 · answer #2 · answered by thunder2sys 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋