Is it possible to install an IDE harddrive with a SATA cable 1

[Adhyapika]

First of all I am very sorry that I posted previously in a wrong page. So I am including my previous message here.

My First Post


I have a dell dimension4700 desktop with windowsXP Home. Recently it started making a tick tick sound then comes the death of the blue screen. Now I made a clean windows XP home installation and was working fine for two days.

Now the severe part is my computer is not starting.. it stands there in the windows logo..

I checked the system Bios, there I could see my hard drive in Drives section as Drive 0: SATA-0 is Maxtor

Drive 1: SATA-2 controller = Serial ATA
Port - DATA-2

Drive 2: PATA-0 controller = Parallel ATA
Port - PATA-0 (PRI IDE Master)

Drive 3: PATA-1 controller = Parallel ATA
Port PATA-1 (PRI IDE Slave)
Drive details: Drive ID Philips DVD/RW

I have one mor drive DVD is not showing here.

But in Boot sequence

I have Onboard or USB floppy (not present)(I don't have a floppy drive so I use a usb floppy drive)
Onboard SATA Hard Drive showing not present
Onboard IDE Hard Drive showing not present
Onboard or USB CD-ROM Drive (here nothing) so I hope it means present.

Now I bought a New Hard drive to install in this computer. I need to format this harddrive.

Can anyone help me to do this. If I make this New Harddrive as a slave. Can I use it in this computer as a master. I got a enclosure to format this. I tried as a Master but it is not showing. so I changed to slave but I don't know what will happen.. so please help me..

This is my first time for me

thanks in advance.. appreciate your great help



wolluf (TechnicalUser)
Adhyapika - you should start a new thread for your question.

Do I take it your current (failing) hard drive is a Maxtor SATA drive?

What type of drive is the new one? If its IDE, then yes you can make it master on IDE primary controller. If its SATA, then master/slave doesn't happen - just one drive on each connector.

Then you're talking about putting it in an enclosure. Once in an enclosure, then yes you can partition and format it from any XP machine using disk management (run diskmgmt.msc) on the external drive.

But not sure what you're trying to do. Do you want to install XP on the new drive in your machine - and then possibly try to retrieve data from failing drive?

If you want to do that, connect new drive to machine (and disconnect the failing one for the time being). Boot from XP install CD - if the drive is SATA you'll probably need SATA drivers on a floppy (you say you've got a USB floppy) - should be available from Dell) - press F6 when prompted at start of install and then present flopy when prompted. If its IDE just proceed as normal. You'll get the chance to create and format partition later. Once installed (you'll probably need to get other drivers from Dell site too - unless you already have on CD) you can try connecting failing drive to see if you can access it. You'll need to re-activate your XP - may need to phone them, but if so, just answer questions (once they've established hardware failure should be no problem).


Thankyou wolluf for pointing me my mistake. (wrong forum posting)



Yes My current drive is Maxtor SATA drive (Which is not working) and the new one is IDE.

I want to replace the old harddrive (which is not working) and install a new harddrive. But by mistake I bought an IDE harddrive which I formatted through an enclosure (My computer is not able to format) I took the jumber off.

Now in the computer I can see cable for SATA connections only and the old harddisk inside the computer is SATA. Is it possible to connect IDE harddrive with a SATA cable? (I didn't know the difference).

Can some please help me..I appreciate your great help..Thanks in advance.

 

[paparazi]

I know for a fact that when SATA drives were first introduced Abit sold an adapter that fastened to the back of the older style IDE type drives to give SATA connection.
I'm sure by now that there must be several others available to do the same.
IDE to SATA convertor.
Martin

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[wolluf]

Adhyapika - do you mean there's no (spare) IDE connector on your machine? (what's the CD/DVD connected to - if IDE, is there another connector of same type. You can put hard drive on same IDE cable as optical drive, but I wouldn't recommend it). Or that there is a connector but no IDE cable?

 

[Adhyapika]

sorry for the delay.. I was not here to reply for this..

No spare IDE. my computer has a SATA drive so I bought a Seagate SATA drive today and I tried to format the drive through the CD provided by Seagate. I think it formatted but not when I tried to install windows XP it is stopping in "Setup is starting windows" option. I don't know what to do.

I tried to restart the computer and now it shows
"NTLDR is missing
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart"

Please help me to install this new hard drive..

I appreciate your great help..

 

[ruler1]

NTLDR is missing
make sure you have selected the right HDD to boot from in your BIOS as it looks as though its trying to boot from a drive with no operating system on it hence NTLDR is missing
you need to select the drive that has your OS