Mix of IDE/SATA hard drives possible ?

[DonIsHere]

Possible stupid question...

I have a Biostar NF325-A7 motherboard. I had 2 IDE hard drives in there. One of them died on me. Looking to replace it.

Is it ok for a motherboard to have both an IDE hard drive AND a SATA harddrive?

 

[Glavinsolo]

of course

you select the bootable drive in the bios just as you would if they were both of the same type

 

[corkyg]

No problem as long as you have a place to connect it. If not, there are always SATA/PATA and PATA/SATA conversion connectors.

 

[DonIsHere]

The motherboard I have does have both IDE and SATA connections so I'm all set. I just thought you could only have 1 type. But now I know.

thanks a bunch.... [/idiot moment]

 

[myocardia]

If the drive you're replacing was your boot drive, you'll need to unplug your IDE drive, while installing Windows, because you've got an older chipset. I even have to do that on my nForce 4 boards, which are newer.

 

[BehindEnemyLines]

You might want to be careful on how many IDE controllers are available. Most motherboards these days have only (1) IDE and maybe (4) SATA ports. I had to get an SATA dvd-burner since I have a IDE/PATA hard drive that was physically not possible to chain with the IDE dvd-burner.

 

[Roguestar]

^ His motherboard has 2 IDE ports.