adding IDE hd to SATA system?

[pheasant]

Built a box with SATA as only hard drive. Want to pull an IDE out of a box
I'll give to my father in law. Will put his hd in that box.
Has WXP on the new box, and W98 on old drive. The current drive is lettered
as H (new build)

Best way to add? Delete OS also?

Thanks

 

[John McGaw]

Built a box with SATA as only hard drive. Want to pull an IDE out of a box
I'll give to my father in law. Will put his hd in that box.
Has WXP on the new box, and W98 on old drive. The current drive is lettered
as H (new build)

Best way to add? Delete OS also?

Thanks

Are you claiming that the computer you built has no parallel IDE ports or
that it only has a SATA drive at the moment? I've never seen a MB with SATA
that didn't also have a pair of old-style IDE ports and connecting a drive
to one of them is no different than with any other system: set master/slave
appropriately, screw it in place and hook up the connectors. After that you
may have to diddle the BIOS settings to make sure the system knows what is
going on and where it should boot from but that should not be difficult.
Then just format and partition the drive as normal.

 

[pheasant]

Are you claiming that the computer you built has no parallel IDE ports or
that it only has a SATA drive at the moment? I've never seen a MB with SATA
that didn't also have a pair of old-style IDE ports and connecting a drive
to one of them is no different than with any other system: set master/slave
appropriately, screw it in place and hook up the connectors. After that you
may have to diddle the BIOS settings to make sure the system knows what is
going on and where it should boot from but that should not be difficult.
Then just format and partition the drive as normal.

Just has it hooked up to the SATA only. Oh yes, still have the 2 EIDE ports
(plus a PATA port).
I've just never worked with raid before, so just trying to get a feel for
the best way to add the second drive.
Just want to be sure it still boots from H, not whatever letter WXP would
assign the older secondary(that still has W98 loaded)

 

[Ric H]

Built a box with SATA as only hard drive. Want to pull an IDE out of a box
I'll give to my father in law. Will put his hd in that box.
Has WXP on the new box, and W98 on old drive. The current drive is lettered
as H (new build)

Best way to add? Delete OS also?

Thanks

bear in mind a lot of boards with SATA boot disks will try and boot off IDE
first: if you put a bootable HDD in on P-ATA afterwards, it'll try and boot
off it. confused the hell out of me the first few times.

ric h

 

[William W. Plummer]

bear in mind a lot of boards with SATA boot disks will try and boot off IDE
first: if you put a bootable HDD in on P-ATA afterwards, it'll try and boot
off it. confused the hell out of me the first few times.

Right. On my ASUS A7n8x-e I had to use "SCSI" as the boot device rather
than HDD-0. It works fine now an my system has the SATA drive, a normal
IDE drive with an unused OS on it, a USB box with another old IDE drive in
it and a Flash Drive. It comes up without problems from the SATA drive.

 

[William W. Plummer]

Just has it hooked up to the SATA only. Oh yes, still have the 2 EIDE ports
(plus a PATA port).
I've just never worked with raid before, so just trying to get a feel for
the best way to add the second drive.
Just want to be sure it still boots from H, not whatever letter WXP would
assign the older secondary(that still has W98 loaded)

Install the SATA drive. Set it as the 1st boot device at least
temporarily. Add in the old EIDE drive. Use Drive Manger or Partition
Magic to make the EIDE drive not "Bootable". Then you can change the boot
order without suddenly reverting to W98 by accident.

 

[jj]

I just got a new PC with an Asus A7N8X-E with a 120gig sata drive on. I have
an IDE drive from my old machine I want to add to the new PC.

Will it be recognised ok if I just add it to the spare IDE port on the
motherboard?