computer help please?!

[Kossick]

Ok i bought a new motherboard and cpu combo. My hard drive has no sata connection on it and thats all the new motherboard has so i'm assuming i need a adapter from the 39pin ribbon to sata or something?? can anyone confirm this for me OR find the adapter online or around here?? Thanks!!

[TurboGTU]

By the time you buy an adapter you could have bought a new hard drive (on top of the fact the adaptors often suck). Get a sata hard drive and an external cage for your IDE drive if there is stuff you need off it.

[Link]

You can buy an adapter yes. I wouldnt waste your time though. Just go buy a sata hard drive for less than 100 bucks for a 500+ gig (Could probably get a 1TB if u shop at newegg).

[ichibankilla]

You can get the IDE external HD cases off of newegg also for $20-30.

[out there]

your options:

1. get an external adapter to read the ide drive
2. have someone else do it and put the data on your sata drive; ditch the ide drive

[Goodnbuzzd]

i would pass up the adapter, get a dedicated sata drive. This is from experience, the adapters do work, but not terribly reliably, the ones i have used would have troubles working sometimes on boot up, others they would work and randomly quit in the middle of working on something.

[PSiedTSi]

Buying an external IDE controller is better than an "adaptor" but he got it running on the IDE channel.

[dubbsy]

Link;275755 wrote:
You can buy an adapter yes. I wouldnt waste your time though. Just go buy a sata hard drive for less than 100 bucks for a 500+ gig (Could probably get a 1TB if u shop at newegg).

1TB WD drives are less than $100 now a days.