Can you run a computer with (1) SATA Hard drive and (1) IDE Hard drive?
538398
Sure, I run 3 SATA drives and 2 PATA drives, no problemo. Needless to say, your motherboard must have a SATA port on it or you need to buy some sort of controller.
1005103
this depends on your motherboard.  You should be able to do it, though.  Make sure you set windows up on the SATA drive before installing the others.
981434
Yes, you can, and normally it works fine without the need to reinstall the operating system. However, partitioning a hard drive always carries a small risk, so I would NOT recommend doing this if you don't own the intallation disk for the operating system (presumably Windows XP). Otherwise, if something goes wrong and you need to format the hard disk, you'll be forced to buy Windows XP separately which could be expensive.
38863
Your question doesn't have a simple answer; however, if you don't need two computers, the easiest thing to do would be to transplant the HD from the slower machine into the better one.  This way, you'll have both drives available in the same computer, with a minimum of muss 'n fuss :)
1034279
the short answer is the HD you have will connect to the motherboard you have.\n\nthe long answer is that there are 2 standards of connectors\n\nSata = Serial ATA \nPata = Parallel ATA used to be called only ATA before the pata was introduced few years ago.\n\ndevice that is not clearly marked sata is most probably pata.\n\n[edit]\n\nthe best speed of read and write you will get from sata 2 which is 300 MB/S.\n\nA good solution will be to connect 2 HDD in what is called raid 0 (striping)
571012
Re-boot and go into the Bios and see if they are being recognized there.  If not, try a different power connector from the power supply. It sounds like the drives aren't even getting power. It's hard to believe both drives could go bad at once.  Even if the IDE Controller went bad, the drive tray will still open as long as it's getting power.
565430
1. you can only put one cpu fan per cpu. you can however add chasis fans, and to answer that, depends on the chasis you have.\n2. Sata doesnt make your processor any faster. It does however increase how fast the processor can access information from the harddrive. typrically it wont be very noticable from a home user prospective. It will help with labor intensive programs. and maybe boot your computer up a lil faster.\n3. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I have always used generic and have never had a problem.\n4. Have no personal opinion on either product.\n5. NO, if you want sound you have to have a sound card, and like a stereo system, it doesnt matter how good your speakers are, if your stereo (sound card) sucks, so will the sound.\n6.any time you want to hear sound from your computer.\n7. depends on how many expansion slots you are using and for what. if you have your motherboard with no periphials, then you dont need such a robust powersupply. \n8. yes over clocking causes over heating, over heating anything is always bad.
1050805
SATA is best right now for gaming and speed. A SATA PULL if probably used and means it was pulled from a used PC, but still works.\nIDE is also good and can be fast but is "Kinda" older technology.\nSATA is a small plug on motherboards, and IDE is the big flat one.\nI hope this is simple enough.
240824
You need to check the user manual whether your system supports SATA. FYI you need different interface on the motherboard in order to use SATA hdds
1095769
should be able to. if they're both Dells, that is. and if Dell hasn't changed their hard drive/hard drive bay since whenever 4GB drives were actually manufactured. you should call their Customer Service to be sure. but i don't see why not.
495676
it depends on the machine itself, for home usage\ni would suggest the following\n1) Maxtor\n2) Western digital \n3) Seagate\nall have good warrenty, and i would suggest getting SATA rather than IDE for home usage.
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The SATA specification is reverse compatible. And you will not need to play with jumpers to achieve this.\n\nSeagate helped to pioneer SATA and released the first SATA drive. They have a wealth of reading material on their site.
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you should be able to, as long as there is space for another hard drive in there, It should be a piece of cake!\n\nBE SURE TO UNPLUG YOUR COMPUTER FIRST!\n\nassuming you have IDE (grey cables) not sata\n\non the "Slave" hard drive the hd your going to be putting in for extra space should be set to slave. The jumpers in the back of the hard drive should have a small letter next to it like S or M or C you want S\n\nnow the current hard drive you have in there you will need to set the jumpers to master or M.\n\nWhen you connect the ribbon you will connect one end to the mother board, usually blue, and the other end to the master, the middle connector chouls go to the slave.\n\nfinaly plug in the power\n\n\n\nif you have SATA (red cables) just plug in your new hard drive mount it to the tower plug in the power and thats it.
312657
IDE oe EDIE support two devices per port\n\nyou can add more EDI cards, if you want more drives
93825
ok sata hard drive are for desktop computers. sata11 hard drive are for laptop computers that use the new sata11. all new toshiba g25 come with them so they can raid them
975219
If your computer has an IDE connection it should be easy enough. The first thing you'll need is an extra bay for the hard drive, or if you're willing to take the chance just take the computer case off and just let the hard drive hang loose. Next you'll also need another IDE cable to plug into the drive and another power connection. Plugging these two in are pretty self-explanatory - they only fit one way. After you get those hooked up you might need to move the jumper(the little black thing that goes over the pins) to the slave position. Some other tips: if you don't have an extra IDE cable in your computer just take the one of the DVD or CD drive and attach to the hard drive, if the hard drive is formatted with FAT, FAT32, or NTFS you should be OK if you're running Windows 2000 or XP, for the jumper usually the hard drive sticker on it will show the different jumper connections. If not it usually doesn't matter but make sure that is your last resort, and finally if you have a SATA connection that should be OK too(the SATA cable is the orange or res small cable and the IDE cable is the big, fat, grey one). Once you get all of these things done your BIOS might say 'found new hard drive press Enter to continue', after that when you're logged into Windows just transfer all the files you need off of that hard drive to the one you want to move them to.
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you can use vmware to run both at the same time it is a little tricky to setup but you can do it