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ide harddrive to sata
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17. January 2010 @ 22:17 |
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i want to upgrade my 160bg ide harddrive with a 500bg sata hard drive. their both seagate harddrives. my question is im wondering will i have any issues with switching wires? will i need anything seperate than what is already inside my pc?
thanks.
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18. January 2010 @ 08:53 |
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Does this motherboard support sata if you dont know what motherboard you have you can download cpuz for free and it will tell you small download but very handy http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
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20. January 2010 @ 17:27 |
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alright,
i have no idea how to read this, so possibly someone can tell just by looking..
thanks
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scorpNZ
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20. January 2010 @ 18:19 |
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That's an old BIOS my advice get IDE,i tried what you are attempting on a presario s5020an of 2004 & it failed to detect the hdd,yet the adaptor worked fine in an external housing
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21. January 2010 @ 07:56 |
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Originally posted by scorpNZ:
That's an old BIOS my advice get IDE,i tried what you are attempting on a presario s5020an of 2004 & it failed to detect the hdd,yet the adaptor worked fine in an external housing
yeh i agree
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21. January 2010 @ 09:24 |
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so if i were to upgrade the bios, would i be able to use the harddrive? or is it not even practical?
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21. January 2010 @ 10:37 |
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Originally posted by WeedKing:
so if i were to upgrade the bios, would i be able to use the harddrive? or is it not even practical?
your best off just getting an ide hardrive m8 i couldnt find any specs on your motherboard
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scum101
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21. January 2010 @ 10:46 |
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ddp
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21. January 2010 @ 13:28 |
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the white & black connectors above the bios chip are your sata ports. are you getting rid of the 160gig or just adding the 500gig as a data drive?
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Jkyr12
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21. January 2010 @ 18:28 |
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I'm building a new comp from scratch, and instead of transferring my files and reinstalling windows, I'm finding it much easier to just use the old IDE drive as a boot drive.
Im new here, spend most of my time in the PC Hardware forums, and am working on my first build.
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ddp
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21. January 2010 @ 20:34 |
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if old drive has windows from old motherboard then you might want to reload windows as you'll probably get bsod on new motherboard.
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22. January 2010 @ 08:02 |
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you best off just using windows easy transfer
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