medicman25

I have just bought a new computer which is using a red cable to a ATA hard drive (i am not sure if it is ATA or SATA - how do i know?). What i want to do is add my OLD HD from my old computer - but it only has the IDE pins.

1) I guess i want to know how to hook up the cables to make it a slave drive.

2) Can i plug in the IDE cable to the mother board - or do i need to hook up a red cable to this old hard drive?

3) How do i boot the system and get the old hard drive to be recognized? I am using Vista on new hard drive and XP on old hard drive?

4) Are there any BIOS settings i need to change to have it as a slave drive - or can i have it as a secondary master - i WANT to have the Vista boot all the time and then be able to switch over to the XP when i want to do something on the old hard drive.

Sorry for all this - but i have never used anything but IDE hard drives - so i feel lost with this.