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Location: Newcastle, Australia
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IDE drive onto SATA mobo
I am planning to replace my son's system - he's currently running an old HP that only has IDE connections for his HD. The new system will only have SATA (unless I want to share the CD/DVD and his old IDE HD which I've read is not really a good idea)
What I am trying to avoid is having to reload all his software - much of which is freeware/shareware that he has not kept the download files for  He has the disks for all his major software but still takes time etc. My question: Can you get SATA to IDE adapters? and are they any good? (oops 2 questions in one  ) If they are any good I could use the old IDE drive as a system drive and the new drive as a storage drive 
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Location: west australia
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Re: IDE drive onto SATA mobo
use one of these
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...12548&name=IDE http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822998001
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