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Am I right in assuming you can mix IDE and serial ATA hard drives on a motherboard that is equipped for both?
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Yes, you can. I'm doing so at home. The question is... which set has the boot drive? I have two 120GB drives in a Mirror RAID as my boot device (SATA Drives) and added another 120GB drive on the IDE chain. Most motherboards will default to try and boot off of the IDE chain, so if you have your SATA drive(s) as your boot device, you'll wanna go into your BIOS and make sure you have it set as the drive to boot off of. -
Thanks for the info. I've three IDE drives at the moment and two (40gb)are going to be retired to be replaced by a 160. I usually go with IBM but am trying one of the Seagate Barracudas this time.Comment
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I was wondering what people do to backup their images. I find that I line to have my images at my finger tips at all times. I am not a professional so I don't have lots and lots of projects to store but have collected over 30,000 images of the past several years. These are all, or at least most, in...09-25-2009, 07:57 AM -
In order to install a second hard drive into my HP Pavilion A736N PC, instructions say to obtain a hard drive cage (no longer available from HP.) The master drive (160gb 7200rpm ATA-100 drive) is attached with screws directly to the inside front of the case frame (no cage.) There is no way to attach...08-21-2006, 06:24 PM
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One of the most often forgotten disk maintenance tasks is the Hard Drive Balancing05-25-2006, 12:03 AM
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After I installed the new 60 gig hard drive, the computer would only recognize 32 gigs. My son-in-law, who is quite good with computers, came over last night, and he found that I put a jumper on the hard drive that shouldn't have been there. After removing the jumper, the full 60 gigs showed up. Today,...10-02-2002, 05:08 PM
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Well it has been a year and it looks like I am about to lose my hard drive for the second time. It does take an extremely long time for things to load so I guess that is my clue.
I ran the free PC Pitstop test and it flagged my C drive's extremely slow performance. It is a Maxtor...11-13-2006, 04:08 PM
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