Slave hard drive?

[Hovis211]

ok this is my third post ever so go easy please :-P any way. i want to add another hard drive to my pc. i currently have a 320gb hard drive and i want to add my 20gb. i know its sounds silly but i want to put all my pics, vids, and work etc on the smaller one and leave the bigger one for better things , ie games :-P any way i mounted my 20gb hard drive and then looked for the ribbon from the existing one, as thats how i did it on my last pc. i found that there wasnt one as the hard drive in this pc is a SATA hard drive. any way to cut the story short. i then found an old ribbon and attached it to the board as there is a IDE place for it. it worked fine but for some reason it knocked out my dvd/rw drive. and it said it could not start the dvd/rw drive. so i disconnected the 20gb hard drive and it worked fine again :-S sorry for the long story but any help or advice? and can i use a old hard drive with a SATA? thanks Hovis211

[ỒĊBłůē]

If your old drive has a jumper on it, try removing it (whilst the PC is off) then plugging it in and booting up.

This should set it as 'Slave' to your DVD/RW drive, which should now both work.

Just as an aside, a 20GB drive is likely to be quite old now - I don't think I'd be backing up anything important on it as drives don't last forever.

[gsa_200620062006]

The old hard drive has to be SATA as well otherwise they have different formats.

[ỒĊBłůē]

The old hard drive has to be SATA as well otherwise they have different formats.Are you the king of the one-liners or something?

Your posts look awfully spammy.

[SpeedySurfer]

I agree with ỒĊBłůē about gsa_200620062006. In his other posts he seems like an advert for intel too.

[Greeny]

A human can't make as many inane posts as that in as little a period of time. Banstick!