JTM Posted December 8, 2009 Report Share Posted December 8, 2009 I just bought Anal's PC off him, and im trying to stick my old HDD in the PC to grab all my music etc off it. Trouble is, the HDD in the new PC has 2 connectors, ones about 20mm long and the other is 10mm long. The HDD im trying to add has the 40mm long ribbon connector and a 4 pin power cable thing. I spotted that the DVD drive in the new PC has the same connections, so thought id try and use them. Plugged it in, changed boot order to run 2 HDD's but nothing? Any pointers?Ta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anzo Posted December 8, 2009 Report Share Posted December 8, 2009 I just bought Anal's PC off him, and im trying to stick my old HDD in the PC to grab all my music etc off it. Trouble is, the HDD in the new PC has 2 connectors, ones about 20mm long and the other is 10mm long. The HDD im trying to add has the 40mm long ribbon connector and a 4 pin power cable thing. I spotted that the DVD drive in the new PC has the same connections, so thought id try and use them. Plugged it in, changed boot order to run 2 HDD's but nothing? Any pointers?TaSo the current HDD in the PC is a SATA connection, the one your trying to add is an IDE connection.Keep the SATA as the primary drive and on the IDE drive you will have about 8 small pins on there with a jumper on it. On the label it should detail the jumper position for 'Slave' which is what you need - it'll fall under drive E: or whatever on your computer.Interesting though, I've never ran SATA with IDE - so I'm not sure if you'll have confliction issues, but I wouldn't have thought so.Also, if the DVD drive is IDE (ribbon) - don't add the HDD on the same cable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTM Posted December 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2009 (edited) Ok its showing up now as D: but when I click it it says drive is not formatted, do I want to format. Obviously I dont, so any ideas?Im proud, fixed it myself EDIT: Jumpering to slave is wrong. As the other drive is Master SATA, this drive is the Master IDE, even though its the slave in the overall scheme of things.Thanks for the help Edited December 8, 2009 by JTM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krisboats Posted December 8, 2009 Report Share Posted December 8, 2009 So the current HDD in the PC is a SATA connection, the one your trying to add is an IDE connection.Keep the SATA as the primary drive and on the IDE drive you will have about 8 small pins on there with a jumper on it. On the label it should detail the jumper position for 'Slave' which is what you need - it'll fall under drive E: or whatever on your computer.Interesting though, I've never ran SATA with IDE - so I'm not sure if you'll have confliction issues, but I wouldn't have thought so.Also, if the DVD drive is IDE (ribbon) - don't add the HDD on the same cable.Adding the Hard drive and DVD on the same ribbon should be fine, have the HDD as master and optical as slave. Never had any problems doing that myself. Running a master SATA and a master IDE drive in the same machine will be fine. SATA doesn't really have a master as such just a selected boot device in the bios menu due to each drive having separate cables, where as IDE needs a master and a slave as they both run along the same line of cable.I also have 3 SATA, one IDE and one IDE running through a SATA adapter chipset (this).The two formats are quite happy to be run side by side in the same machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTM Posted December 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2009 Good info, thanksCopying all my shit now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anzo Posted December 8, 2009 Report Share Posted December 8, 2009 Adding the Hard drive and DVD on the same ribbon should be fine, have the HDD as master and optical as slave. Never had any problems doing that myself. Running a master SATA and a master IDE drive in the same machine will be fine. SATA doesn't really have a master as such just a selected boot device in the bios menu due to each drive having separate cables, where as IDE needs a master and a slave as they both run along the same line of cable.I also have 3 SATA, one IDE and one IDE running through a SATA adapter chipset (this).The two formats are quite happy to be run side by side in the same machine.Ahh I see, I always considered it 'best practice' to not run a hard drive and DVD from the same ribbon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted December 8, 2009 Report Share Posted December 8, 2009 It is best practice to have a ribbon for your hard drives plugged into IDE1, and another for the opticals plugged into IDE2.In reality it makes very little difference, just slightly faster read times if you have your master HD on the plug closest to the IDE1 socket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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