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Sata Upgrade Question

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beach2nd

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I've been looking into upgrading recently to an A64 system, but when looking for motherboards I have noticed that they all have sata. Now if I did upgrade I would want to keep my regular IDE hard drive, so my question is would there be any compatibility problems and could I even use a regular IDE hard drive on a sata motherboard? Thanks.
 
Hello,

Every board I have seen has both SATA and IDE. No motherboard, that I know of, has gotten rid of IDE (DVD / CD still run on IDE). I'm not sure about compatiability problems with running both types, I am trying to find that out myself?
 
I've not heard of any compatibility problems, and you can use IDE hard drives on a motherboard with SATA. The main issue is usually the boot priority of the drives, which is set somewhere in your BIOS. But it will work.
 
I am using both an IDE and SATA drives. No problems whatsoever. But like what Bunter said, the only problem you might come across is the boot priority and installing windows.
 
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