Hi, I have a fairly old HDD from my old PC and since my current PC is running out of free space I tried to connect the old HDD until I have money to buy a new one. This is my old HDD: Barracuda ATA IV 40GB (http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/5624/discodurozp8.jpg) My new HDD conection port is like this one (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Hdd.jpg). My PC is like this AMD Athlon 64 X2, Asus M2N-MX SE Plus (http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/4701/mainboardhz2.jpg) I bought an IDE cable that has 3 ports to fit the old HDD (2 grey and 1 blue) I think that's not the one I should've bought because I can't find anywhere to connect it except maybe one of my CD/DVD writers. Please help me I've been stuck like this for a week. *PS: I don't think this helps but when I bought it the seller connected my old HDD and copied the Data. Any help would be very much appreciated.
ok you have a PATA (IDE) connector and a SATA HDD probably the best thing for you to do is buy a SATA HDD controller, like this: Novatech 2 Port SATA Raid Controller Card PCI : novatech.co.uk : NOV-SATAR you'll probably see some so called IDE to SATA converter but these adaptors are a bit dodgy / unreliable Edit: you won't be able to connect the HDD to the secondary IDE port (with your CD / DVD drives)
Thanks, I'm gonna try to buy it next week, but what's the problem with these IDE to SATA? because that HDD would be secondary and I wouldn't use except for Data Sharing (I now use my C as Private and D as shared so that HDD would replace D) Also these IDE to SATA (IDE To SATA) well the first two look easy to use but the one you tell me to use requires installation (I'm not sure but I think that needs to be weld)
well basically IDE HDD'S are now old technology which are being replaced by SATA / SATAII / SATAIII (and actually use very diferent connectors, usually, sometimes they include a molex connector (power) on the HDD) in fact it's hard to buy a standard mobo without SATA but new mobo's also include at least 1 IDE connector, in reality mobo manufactures would be stupid to not include any because most people have IDE HDD's at home somewhere even if it's in an old system, personally i have at least 4 old IDE HDD's somewhere, maybe it would be better to replace your mobo
