flywelder

I am seeking to find a data cord not a power cord that I can plug up to a IDE hard drive and then attach the other end of the cord to the SATA connection on my MB. I read some place on this forum of some one who had done this, and I would like to ask them where they purchased this cord....but I cannot find that posting...rats! So perhaps some one knows and would share with me where I can find these cords and perhaps share an item number, that would help. Thanks all! I await your replies. 10-27-08

Hello, I need advice on if i should choose a SATA drive to replace my parallel IDE hard drive. today is Friday 10-10-08. I am facing the reality that I need a larger hard drive than the 30 gig I am currently using, as updates to programs and virus protection ect, are eating up the hard drive space and I have left, only 12% free. My questions are: can I make a SATA drive be the C drive or not. .............. and will I be able to then make the current C drive ( the 30 gig) become a second or slave drive. For I would like to buy a new 500 Gig Western Digital SATA HDD. that is on mark down this week end, before the sale ends this weekend, and i would like to install it, to be my main drive ( drive C ), and just copy over the files from the 30 gig to this new drive. Or is my only and best option for me, to order a 320 Gig IDE hard drive and forget modernizing to a SATA drive? My mother board is a MSI, V class, model PM8M-V. It has two IDE ports and two SATA ports. Currently, I am using both IDE ports and none of the SATA ports. I am using Windows XP home edition. note: that i am not a computer guru, just a home owner who turns the computer on, and serfs the web and attempting to update his desk top computer. Can i do what i want without much hassle and technical. experience? How would i go about this ( what steps would i follow?) Thanks all, I greatly appreciate your individual help, and I await your replies.

Hello, I need advice on if i should choose a SATA drive to replace my parallel IDE hard drive. today is Friday 10-10-08. I am facing the reality that I need a larger hard drive than the 30 gig I am currently using, as updates to programs and virus protection ect, are eating up the hard drive space and I have left, only 12% free. I read all the posts I could find on the SATA drive issue becoming the C drive. I am still at a lost to the question of, can I make a SATA drive be the C drive or not. .............. and will I be able to then make the current C drive ( the 30 gig) become a second or slave drive. For I would like to buy a new 500 Gig Western Digital SATA HDD. that is on mark down this week end, before the sale ends this weekend, and i would like to install it, to be my main drive ( drive C ), and just copy over the files from the 30 gig to this new drive. Or is my only and best option for me, to order a 320 Gig IDE hard drive and forget modernizing to a SATA drive? My mother board is a MSI, V class, model PM8M-V. It has two IDE ports and two SATA ports. Currently, I am using both IDE ports and none of the SATA ports. note: that i am not a computer guru, just a home owner who turns the computer on, and serfs the web and attempting to update his desk top computer. Can i do what i want without much hassle and technical. experience? How would i go about this ( what steps would i follow?) Thanks all, I greatly appreciate your individual help, and I await your replies.