zico martin 87 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 my dad in law was on the phone yesterday as he's bought new pc from Dell which he had planned to stick his old hard drive and DVDRW drives into. He says he cant do it and by the sounds of the noises he was making the connections are all different. so are the ole IDE connectors now defunkt? and is there any solution ( ie. adaptors etc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 133 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Sounds like its got SATA drives it should have IDE ports though for the DVD drive though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zico martin 87 Posted February 23, 2007 Author Share Posted February 23, 2007 Sounds like its got SATA drives it should have IDE ports though for the DVD drive though. i'll have a look tomorrow now, hoping theres at least one ide controller on the motherboard (master and slave the hard drive and dvd writer?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasepud 59 Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 if it doesnt work the stick the old PC in a cupboard or corner switched on, hoy a wireless card in it and use it to network the files you want, sending over stuff the be written to DVD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 133 Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 or get an external HD caddy and stick the old hard drive in that and use it as an external USB hard drive. http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/120659 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zico martin 87 Posted March 4, 2007 Author Share Posted March 4, 2007 or get an external HD caddy and stick the old hard drive in that and use it as an external USB hard drive. http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/120659 He has decided that some sort of external hard drive casing would be his best bet, but this one is less than a tenner ( ex vat) would this really do the job? The cheapest he could find were at least double the price of this and I dont want to recommend it until Im sure it will do the job. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 133 Posted March 4, 2007 Share Posted March 4, 2007 or get an external HD caddy and stick the old hard drive in that and use it as an external USB hard drive. http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/120659 He has decided that some sort of external hard drive casing would be his best bet, but this one is less than a tenner ( ex vat) would this really do the job? The cheapest he could find were at least double the price of this and I dont want to recommend it until Im sure it will do the job. cheers Read at the customer feedback, its all very positive, why shouldn't it work ? http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/in...duct_uid=120659 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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