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Old 07-19-2007, 05:22 PM   #1
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SATA and IDE
i have currently 2 IDE optical drives, CD/RW master and DVD/DVD-RW slave, the master went out and i was wondering if i could use a SATA powered drive in place of the master and if so how ? Can both IDE and SATA be used together?
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i have currently 2 IDE optical drives, CD/RW master and DVD/DVD-RW slave, the master went out and i was wondering if i could use a SATA powered drive in place of the master?
You can't connect a SATA HDD to a IDE port. But if your motherboard supports SATA HDDs and has open ports you can connect a SATA HDD to one of the ports and then go into the BIOS to set the SATA HDD as the boot drive so that Windows will boot from it.
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Can both IDE and SATA be used together?
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Old 07-19-2007, 06:06 PM   #3
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Thanks Cricket, yes my motherboard does has the SATA ports so i just need to change the bios. I appreciate the info.
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