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Adaptor for IDE drive going into SATA-ready PC

  • 12-11-2008 07:40PM
    #1
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    There's a SATA-based PC heading into the household in the next few days and we're hoping to hook the IDE HDD from the old PC up to it - I'm wondering if anyone can suggest a reliable and worthy adaptor that will do the job for us.

    I'm not sure if this is possible (maybe someone can help me with this too) but we want to use the IDE drive (which has XP on it) as the main HDD for the new PC, so we'd want an adaptor that will allow for IDE-quality speeds at least and that isn't just for a once-off file transfer.

    Ideally we want to plug the old HDD in and boot from that into XP, from there we'll wipe the bundled HDD which has Vista on it and just use it as a secondary drive.

    Is this possible or will we need to re-install XP from scratch for this to work? I understand SATA doesn't have all that slave/master nonsense so will this be an issue when trying to make the IDE drive the "dominant" of the two?

    Thanks for any tips and help.


Comments

  • #2
    McSandwich
    Closed Accounts Posts: 593 ✭✭✭McSandwich


    You will most likely have to install from scratch. Even with the adapter, your current windows install is going to see a sata controller where there was once a ide controller, not to mention all the other new hardware. I'd be surprised if it booted at all.


  • #3
    MunsterCycling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,864 ✭✭✭MunsterCycling


    Tbh you might not be able to boot from the IDE drive if the hardware is too different as the OS is installed individually for each machine and the hardware will be too different on the new machine for it to work best having the OS on the fastest drive in the machine anyway as it will perform better this way. If the computer hasn't any IDE interfaces then you will need an IDE adaptor card to allow the machine connect up to the IDE drive, they range in price but not more than €50 for sure http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=110632 €20 + delivery.

    MC


  • #4
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    Thought people might say that - not a big deal; once we can access the documents on the IDE drive we're happy to downgrade Windows on the bundled SATA drive.

    Now - that adaptor you linked to - how exactly would that work? Would the IDE cable etc. run from that to the HDD? There's room in the machine for a second HDD so there's bound to be a spare SATA cable in there, would the above adaptor work better than one that just adapts the spare cable already there?


  • #5
    MunsterCycling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,864 ✭✭✭MunsterCycling


    You more than Likely won't have a spare sata cable bundled but hopefully there will be a second sata port. I have seen IDE to SATA adaptors but not SATA to IDE, not saying they don't exist just haven't come accross them.

    THe IDE cable connects to the cards port same as it would in a PC and you install the driver into the OS and then you can access the drive same as normal, you won't notice anything.

    MC


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