Question on SATA and IDE, help needed please!

isj032 | 16:56 Sat 09th Jun 2007 | Computers

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Ok, so i bought a new SATA hard drive, my motherboard supports SATA so no problems there. I have been using an IDE hard drive and both my optical drives are IDE, I have all the drivers installed and the bios settings are fine, should my IDE setup work with the SATA hard drive is the question. It won't turn on with the new drive installed and I'm at about 2gb of space, which won't last long. So.. should the sata work along with IDE, or should I have checked that it would be compatible beforehand?
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ACtheTROLL

sorry ;-)

which mobo do you have?
and when you say won't turn on ... do you mean power up (post) or boot - do you get an error message?

Sata and IDE should work together - after all your opticals are IDE!

look in the bios ...
for the boot order
does sata come before ide

see if there are any "either or" settings
On some of the early pata/sata mobos (the ones with more than 1 ide channel (0&1) - ch0 was for opticals - Ch1 was either pata or disabled for sata -
the setting was in the raid section.

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