i currently have an 80 gig sata and i need more space and have 2 40 gig ide's spare - should i put them in and do i put them in master or slave beside the cd drives ?
2007-12-18 05:15:43 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
depends on your board, my board doesn't come with ide sockets, SATA uses small cables, ide uses the fat ones.
its easier to buy a usb converter cable, i did. just last friday.
from usbgeeks.com. its like using a giant flash drive that uses its own power supply (comes with an adaptor and power source plug).
i wouldn't suggest having 3 hdd in one case either. thats just asking for them to overheat.
2007-12-18 05:23:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can have both SATA and IDE drives in the same PC. There is a setting in the BIOS that determines which the PC boots from. If it is already booting from SATA, you should not have to reset that.
If you put two devices on the same IDE cable (either both hard drives or a hard drive and a CD drive, then one has to be set to "master" and the other to "slave". It is recommended that the device on the end of the IDE cable be the "slave" device. Beyond that, it does not matter which is which.
2007-12-18 05:22:30 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the motherboard provides the option to do so sure. One of the 40's would be master and the other slave on the IDE connector
2007-12-18 05:21:06 · answer #3 · answered by vulcan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you have a xtrea IDE connrctor on your motherboard just use it that way, set it up as a MASTER on a spare IDE channel. If not I assume you CD is SLAVe so just set up the HD as master
2007-12-18 05:19:57 · answer #4 · answered by nicknowsky88 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u could verify ur device setup in an element u could enable the sata force and alter the precedence of ur ide and sata drives wisely Xp does the evrything afterwards if each and every element is set ok
2016-11-03 23:10:06 · answer #5 · answered by hashrat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dewcoons answer is very good, however, there is one more thing to think about - if possible, put both IDE hard drives on the same channel. If you put an IDE hard drive on the same ribbon cable as the IDE CD-ROM drive, you will most likely slow down that hard drive.
2007-12-18 08:03:42 · answer #6 · answered by Christopher B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes as long as you have both connectors on your motherboard
2007-12-18 05:20:32 · answer #7 · answered by kyrils 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋