I’m new to the insides of machines, and was after a small bit of advice I’ve not been able to 100% clarify on my searches… any help?
I’ve got my machine which has two DVD writers, two hard drives (with the main drive split into two partitions C: and E:) and these are all connected by the two IDE connections on the motherboard.
I want to add another hard drive, but have no IDE connections left, and anyway, would prefer to use the SATA ones as they’re better. Can I add a SATA drive to my existing setup?
Would there be problems with using SATA and IDE drives in the same system – do you have to have all of one type?
I was also wanting to use the SATA drive as a big storage drive, but am under the impression that the computer will make this the main drive when I install it, and so I would need to put Windows on this?
What would be the case if I did add this to my machine?
Thanks (hopefully) in advance!
Best,
dk
