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Offline DREDIOCK

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On another note. and speaking of drives
« on: March 10, 2011, 06:56:23 AM »
Can older Pre SATA drives be connected to newer motherboards?
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Re: On another note. and speaking of drives
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2011, 07:16:22 AM »
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Re: On another note. and speaking of drives
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2011, 09:53:59 AM »
Quote from: gyrene81 on March 10, 2011, 07:16:22 AM
if the mobo has ide/pata connectors yes...if it doesn't you can buy sata to ide/pata adaptors at amazon for around $4 including shipping...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Y2NI4M/ref=ord_cart_shr?ie=UTF8&m=A10GIQVUTYZMGS

http://www.amazon.com/Parallel-DVD-ROM-Interface-Convert-Adapter/dp/B003AG79GO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1299762909&sr=8-2

TY I have a couple of older drives I'd like to retrieve some files from.
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Re: On another note. and speaking of drives
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2011, 03:58:33 PM »
Easy way to do that is with a IDE/SATA to USB adapter. I think I paid about 12$ for mine, but it came with a power supply to power the drive, power adapters (sata, floppy, etc)

Lets you plug in a floppy drive, CD/DVD, IDE HD or SATA HD, shows up in windows as a mass storage device.

Very handy tool.
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Re: On another note. and speaking of drives
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2011, 07:30:45 PM »
Fantabulous!

What a great solution!
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Re: On another note. and speaking of drives
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2011, 11:10:50 PM »
Another route is an external drive enclosure for an IDE drive that plugs into a USB port.  The one I use with my desktop has it's own AC power.  The one I use with my laptop is powered by the USB port.  $6-15 is about the range.  Speed is so close to internal as to not really be noticable.
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