I need to add a new hard drive and I have brought it, it is a SATA not a PATA so it should work but there are 2 ports for me to put in the hard drive and both are used, one by the Primary Hard Drive and the other by the DVD drive. How can I connect my new hard drive.
2007-12-23 09:07:40 · 5 answers · asked by Jawad K 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Does you motherboard and DVD drive have an IDE ports you could use. Then hookup the SATA drive where the DVD is now. You can only have one drive per cable using SATA.
You could also get a SATA expansion card.
2007-12-23 09:16:03 · answer #1 · answered by JeffK 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both drives will only use one IDE connector, there should be two IDE connectors on your motherboard. However you need to connect the SATA drive, to an SATA port.
2007-12-23 10:18:18 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Each SATA cable controls only one drive. If you have additional drives, you will need a controller card that goes into a PCI slot.
2007-12-23 09:19:39 · answer #3 · answered by OKIM IM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are little jumpers on the drives this is little connector on the tip that time out how the rigidity acts. set the single including your working gadget to grasp and the different to slave and then plug them in and each thing ought to flow easily!
2016-12-18 07:21:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All you need is an IDE ribbon with two connectors on the end.
2007-12-23 09:15:06 · answer #5 · answered by kaytee576 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋