TSGL: SATA Drives vs. IDE Drives

[A Hasanat Khan]

Glen,

To the best of my knowledge, SATA will not connect to PATA or IDE. The data 
connections as well as the power connections are different. But I have seen 
small adaptor cards which fit into the IDE connection ports and converts to 
sata. They also include power adaptors. I have never tried them out though. 
I have seen them in shops. They are also very cheap.

Hasanat


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glen Bigelow" <glen_bigelow at yahoo.com>
To: "'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 10:55 AM
Subject: TSGL: SATA Drives vs. IDE Drives


> Hi All,
>
> Here's my problem. I picked up a friends system today, that won't boot up.
> Says, it can't find the hard drive, but the BIOS sees the drive.  Also, at
> one point, it gave me the XP screen that you get when you F8 on startup of
> an XP system...the screen where you can select to boot into Safe
> Mode...which I tried, but it got about half way thru and hung up...so, it 
> is
> reading the drive to some extent.
>
> The machine is only about 14 months old, and I suspect that it just has a
> corrupted OS...but I don't want to start trouble-shooting that aspect 
> until
> I get their data backed up.  So, I would like to remove their existing 
> hard
> drive and slave it on my system.
>
> My question is...their system apparently supports SATA and the drive is a
> SATA drive...at least, according to the information in the BIOS.  My 
> system
> is older and is convention IDE.  Can I slave the SATA drive on my IDE
> system.  I haven't popped the case on the SATA system, so I may answer my
> own question, if the cables are so different that a SATA drive want even
> connect to an IDE cable...but if the cables appear to be the same...can 
> you
> connect a SATA drive to an IDE controller without potentially damaging it?
>
> As you knowledgeable techies can tell, I'm out of my element here, because
> I've never installed a SATA drive and have no knowledge regarding the
> differences between the two types of interfaces...i.e., IDE and SATA.  So 
> I
> would appreciate any help that anyone can provide.
>
> Glen Bigelow
> Sacramento, CA
>
>
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