SATA HD in old PC?

skyhighflyer

Hi all

Bought a new HD for my parents' 6 year old PC. Was planning to install the new HD and do a clean XP install. However it seems like it's IDE only in there and the new HD I ordered from komplett is SATA.

Is there anything I can do to make this HD work with the PC (like a cheap adapter cable or somthing) or do I need to just return it? On a related note, do they even sell IDE HD's anymore? Komplett only seems to sell around two IDE HD's - or am I missing something?

Thanks

yoyo

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=354386

Something like this should do it, however there not always that relyable

Nick

skyhighflyer

yoyo wrote: »

http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=354386

Something like this should do it, however there not always that relyable

Nick

Cheers. I've had bad experiences with PCI adapter cards (parallel to USB) before, do you reckon I would just be better trying to get komplett to exchange it?

yoyo

skyhighflyer wrote: »

Cheers. I've had bad experiences with PCI adapter cards (parallel to USB) before, do you reckon I would just be better trying to get komplett to exchange it?

If it was me I'd send it back to komplett under cooling off, and get a PATA drive which should work, komplett still have a few HERE

Nick