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| Thread ID: 123509 | 2012-02-29 08:34:00 | IDE boot drive with SATA adapter, possible? | systm (9904) | Press F1 |
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| 1262166 | 2012-02-29 08:34:00 | Kia Ora I have recently replaced my motherboard, which is turn means switching from IDE to SATA www.gigabyte.com I am on a budget and can't really afford a new hard drive at the moment, so I am wondering if my old 40GB IDE hard drive will be able to be used as my boot drive if I use a SATA > IDE adapter? Any help would be appreciated :) |
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| 1262167 | 2012-02-29 09:42:00 | Yes you can do that, as per the start of This Video (www.youtube.com) Hardest part would be finding an adaptor. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1262168 | 2012-02-29 09:59:00 | Yes you can do that, as per the start of This Video (www.youtube.com) Hardest part would be finding an adaptor. So all I would need is something like this? www.trademe.co.nz The main question I guess I have is, will the hard drive then be bootable? |
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| 1262169 | 2012-02-29 17:16:00 | You might need to reinstall Windows but the hard drive will be bootable. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1262170 | 2012-02-29 19:31:00 | I have heard the adapters are sometimes problematic. Maybe a cheap controller card with IDE would be better, then again a 2nd hand SATA drive might cost less if you shop around. On the other hand looking at your link, $5 isn't much to risk. I have given away larger hard drives than yours in the past :lol: | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1262171 | 2012-02-29 20:41:00 | Thank you for all the replies. Much appreciated :) | systm (9904) | ||
| 1262172 | 2012-02-29 23:59:00 | Yes you can do that, as per the start of This Video (www.youtube.com) Hardest part would be finding an adaptor. The hardest part is finding an adapter that isn't ****. I tried this same idea with my latest build which only had 1 IDE port instead of 2. I bought two of those cheap IDE -> SATA adapters from eBay and they did not work very well. They only worked with HDDs (not CD\DVD drives as I wanted them for) and even then they would cause BSOD errors when I enabled AHCI on my SATA controller. I have heard the adapters are sometimes problematic. Maybe a cheap controller card with IDE would be better This is what I did eventually. Gave up trying to use the adapters I bought and a cheap IDE card was cheaper anyway than it would have cost to buy 2 decent adapters. |
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