Upgrade

euphfellowship · 01-04-2008, 06:14 PM

After some deliberation and price checking, I'm going to upgrade. I know pretty well everything I'm looking for, but I might have a problem. The motherboard that I'm going with has support for 2 SATA HDDs, however, my 80GB and 250GB HDDs are EIDE drives. Is there an adapter or card that I can add to make the drives work properly, or am I going to have to upgrade the HDDs as well?

**BCCOMP** · 01-04-2008, 07:24 PM

Hi Steve,
What is the Mobo you are looking at? Many boards have both Sata connections and EIDE.
Thanks,
Bill

**linderman** · 01-04-2008, 07:28 PM

http://www.satacables.com/html/sata-acessories.html

euphfellowship · 01-05-2008, 12:47 AM

Thank you Linderman, that will work perfect!

01-04-2008, 06:14 PM	#1 (permalink)
euphfellowship Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 9 OS: Windows XP SP2	Upgrade After some deliberation and price checking, I'm going to upgrade. I know pretty well everything I'm looking for, but I might have a problem. The motherboard that I'm going with has support for 2 SATA HDDs, however, my 80GB and 250GB HDDs are EIDE drives. Is there an adapter or card that I can add to make the drives work properly, or am I going to have to upgrade the HDDs as well? __________________ iSteve

01-04-2008, 07:24 PM	#2 (permalink)
BCCOMP Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: New York Posts: 6,978 OS: Win XP SP3 / Windows 7 Beta / Open Suse My System	Re: Upgrade Hi Steve, What is the Mobo you are looking at? Many boards have both Sata connections and EIDE. Thanks, Bill __________________ PC Wizard \| Everest \| Power supply info \| Memtest86+ PC Running Slow Speedfan

01-04-2008, 07:28 PM	#3 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,429 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Re: Upgrade http://www.satacables.com/html/sata-acessories.html __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial

01-05-2008, 12:47 AM	#4 (permalink)
euphfellowship Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 9 OS: Windows XP SP2	Re: Upgrade Thank you Linderman, that will work perfect! __________________ iSteve