I have a dell XP410 running Vista Home Premium with a quad core processor and 3gb of ram and one hard drive (750gb). Although fitting a spare hd was not essential I decided to do it anyway as there were plenty of spare connections. The drive is set up with SATA connections but the spare drive which is only 80gb is an older ide connection. As there are no ide connections on the motherboard except a floppy, i used an adapter to connect the drive. Neither the BIOS or the OS see the drive and I have tried turning off the setup for raid drives in the bios and then the system won’t boot at all. Is it just a case of the drive being too small/old or just plain incompatible
