IT Answers » Slave drives http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers Wed, 22 May 2013 10:57:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Install IDE drive as slave on a Vista Dual Core Processor w/SATA primary drive http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/install-ide-drive-as-slave-on-a-vista-dual-core-processor-wsata-primary-drive/ http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/install-ide-drive-as-slave-on-a-vista-dual-core-processor-wsata-primary-drive/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:54:37 +0000 Brenger First: Got a new Vista machine (pentium Dual Core Processor) w/SATA hard drive. Want to install a 5 year old 40 gig Western Digital IDE drive as a slave for storage. The motherboard has what looks like a connection for an IDE drive. The connection on the board is blue to match the blue end of the IDE 80 wire ribbon cable. Therefore I’m making an assumption. Someone at Best Buy said if I installed a drive that old it could blow up my new computer. Doesn’t sound right, but thought I’d check it out first. I haven’t messed with pc hardware for about 5 years and everything has changed. I’m also assuming a ribbon cable will work, and I don’t need to buy one of those new round ones.

Second: how do I set the jumpers. The SATA has 4 sets of 2. Definely not the same as the 5 sets of 2 on the IDE. Do I need to set SATA as master and IDE as slave?

Any tips?

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