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Originally Posted by ax3
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Thanks for the reply Ax
About the first link, I didn't quite understand the discussion bhai. You guys were talking about some "external sata drive-USB-power adapter" ??
My old hard drive (going bad and still using) is 80GB samsung IDE harddisk (almost full). On advice, I was thinking of buying a Sata drive and something called PCI Sata Adapter which is said to be like a normal PCI card but with Sata ports (L-shaped). This is because my 4 year old motherboard (Gigabyte 81845GVM-RZ) doesn't have any Sata ports but only ports for IDE drives.
My questions were about this "PCI Sata Adapter + Sata Drive" and needed advice on it.
About the second link, if I just buy an IDE drive it will be definitely useful although I didn't quite understand about those jumper settings and diagram once I have connected all the wires. Are they actually button I can push as suggested by the diagram to set as master or slave drive or am I getting this completely wrong?
And if I go for that PCI adapter + sata harddisk, how will I go about installing them up in my cabinet and setting up the new Sata drive to be master and my old samsung IDE drive to be slave.
Ps: Can some moderator please move this thread in the "Hardware Troubleshooting" section. It probably belongs and will get more advice/help there.