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How can I use an old PATA hard disk drive on my newer SATA-only computer?
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Mar 15, 202655974 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I've got some old hard drives I'd like to connect to my new computer to quickly transfer gigs and gigs of data from the old drives to my nice large new drives. The old drives are PATA/IDE/ATA and the new computer's motherboard only supports SATA drives. I found this PCI IDE raid controller card. Wi…
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I ended up Frankensteining two computers together. I put a PCI PATA card in the new machine for the data connection and got power from a different computer. Ugly.
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