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Old 06-07-2007, 03:00 AM
simrick simrick is offline
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Default ATA - SATA HDDs
Hi. A friend has a new Dell Vista Home with a single HDD, capable of 2 internal HDDs. She wants to take the old internal HDD out of the old computer and slave it in the new computer, however, the old HDD is the old version (not SATA). Can this be done and, if so, exactly what does she need to do this? Thanks.
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Old 06-10-2007, 10:47 AM
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Default Re: ATA - SATA HDDs
This should be possible, most pc's still have an IDE socket to connect older (no sata) drives, if not then you can put it on the same cable as the CD/DVD Rom, just set the rom to master or slave and the old drive to master of slave, that should work fine
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