Recent content by cynismus

Update: I decided to try to hook up my other PATA drive (the one with Windows installed on it) in an attempt to verify if I was even hooking everything up correctly. To my chagrin, my computer DID recognize that drive. So I decided to take the other one to Best Buy to see if their external...

I unhooked my SATA drive completely from the motherboard and attached its power cable to the IDE drive. I took the IDE cable out of the DVD drive and hooked that up to the IDE drive. I set the jumper to cable select. So that means the only drive connected to the motherboard was the IDE drive...

The cable that the dvd drive is on isn't long enough to stretch to the hard drive.

So I recently got a new computer, and it came with one SATA hard drive. My old computer has a Western Digital IDE hard drive with a bunch of data on it, and I want to move it all over to the SATA drive. My motherboard has two IDE channels. IDE0 is my DVD burner - that is the only device on it. I...