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yes atapi is another name for IDE and so is ATA
I would try another cable hard drives use a 80wire data cable and cd rom drive use a 40 wire
the computer should be able to see and use the hard drive with the cd-rom cable though, just not as fast with reads and writes
the first place to check is in the bios, if the bios doesnt see the drive and report the model number correctly then you cant take step 2
check your bios; you should see the drive in the boot order but dont change your settings
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