IDE hard drives used in most PCs are essentially obsolete and should be replaced with SATA (Serial ATA) drives in new shipments of PCs. For a systems builder, this situation presents a great ...

I just recently got a new rig, and now I want to copy some files off of my old IDE HDD onto my new SATA HDD. I've hooked up the IDE and tried jumpering it as "neutral position" "single position" "dual ...

I'm replacing an old 60GB IDE laptop hard drive with a much faster 150GB drive. I don't have a secondary IDE bay. I do have access to an external USB drive. Is there a program that will let me quickly ...

The project utilizes the 82C55 chip in order to create a simple design of connecting a standard IDE interface hard drive to a 8051 board. It uses a software that can provide access to raw sectors ...

Brainout asked the Hard Drives, NAS Drives, Storage forum to explain some of the words used to describe hard drives and storage. Technical terms can get overwhelming, especially when they include too ...

Master and slave settings on IDE hard drives are designed so you can put two drives on a single IDE cable. One acts as the master or main drive and the other is the slave. A hard drive's master or ...

If you're struggling with decreased performance on a Windows based machine, it's a simple fix to check to make sure your IDE drives aren't operating in a slower, ineffective transfer mode. When fresh ...

Reader Fred wants to know if a laptop hard drive can be plugged into a desktop PC. “The pin out appears to be the same,” he notes, “but there is no separate power-supply connector.” Short answer: yes.