hi i'm new to the forum, i would like to say hi to everyone and thanks to any responses to any questions i may ask



i have a ide 320GB hard drive which i haven't used before, i would like to connect this hard disk to my motherboard as a replacement to a sata hard disk (which got corrupted) but i don't have the necessary jumper cables, but i do have the sata cables from my sata disk, i was wondering if i could connect the ide disk to my sata cables through this adapter LinITX.com - IDE Drive - SATA Drive Converter

do you think it is possible to do this?

the ide disk is not formatted, what about installing the xp o/s would i need to configure bios

i don't know if it's possible to do this, if it's possible will i need any other hardware? what about bios? any help would be much appreciated

many thanks in advance

Hello kiko1, welcome to PCHF.

Yes it does work, I currently have an IDE CD-ROM connected in the same way. Your BIOS will see your HDD as a SATA device. Remember that even though you are connected via SATA, you will still operate at slower IDE speeds since your HDD is still IDE.

thanks for the reply

it makes sense for the drive to operate in ide speeds, ahhh i though otherwise, anyway i'm glad it works,


thanks again

Any time kiko. Marked as answered.