Can I use a SATA HD with and IDE?

[mburgio]

I currently have an IDE ATA/100 hard drive but I want to make this the slave, and a new SATA/150 as my master. Since obviously the cabling is different, can I still have a SATA as my master and the old IDE drive as my slave?

 

[Alex]

yeah
theres also SATA->IDE adaptors in case u need them

 

[airfoil]

You can leave the old IDE drive as Master. Install the SATA drive, go to the BIOS and set the SATA drive to be the first boot drive.

When you go about instaling XP on the SATA drive, disconnect the IDE drive until you have completed the XP installation.

 

[MrControversial]

<anal>SATA drives are IDE drives. What you need is a SATA to PATA adapter.</anal>

 

[Woody419]

Yes, you can have SATA and IDE drives together. I have an SATA master and 2 IDE's. Cloning the IDE master to the new SATA might work if the SATA/RAID drivers are installed first, but don't be surprised if it fails to boot. Then you either have a very messy job editing Windows files or doing a clean install. SP2 has limited native SATA/RAID support, so it may work. All this is assuming your mb already has SATA/RAID ports and you are just getting around to using them.

 

[stevty2889]

SATA doesn't use master/slave setting as the technology only allows for 1 driver per channel right now, it's not neccessary. If you want to use the SATA drive as your main drive, then you'll want to disconnect the PATA drive while installing windows, otherwise due to a glitch, it will still put the master boot record on the PATA drive. Then you'll need to set the SATA drive as the bootable hard drive in Bios. After you boot into windows with the sata drive once, to make sure it's all set up correctly, you can then hook the PATA drive back up.