Use some computer Hard Drive help.

[Crambone]

If you look at the picture hard drive 1 is being replaced with 2, I’m not sure what adapter or cables I will require to swap over. I’m a Computer idiot so be kind.

Thanks , Drew

[soldar]

Why?

[tunk]

Drive 1 is SATA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA
Drive 2 most likely is 2.5" IDE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA#IDE_and_ATA-1

Even if an adapter exists, it may be cheaper (and simpler) to get a new SATA drive.

[selcuk]

Looks like your mother board has both SATA and IDE connectors. If you have spare connector on that IDE cable (Normally they have 3 heads, 1 to mother board, 2 to devices), you can plug that and a spare power cable to the hard drive.

I agree that new SATA drive may be better as IDE drive is probably old tech.

[soldar]

Drive 1 is SATA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA
Drive 2 most likely is 2.5" IDE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA#IDE_and_ATA-1

Even if an adapter exists, it may be cheaper (and simpler) to get a new SATA drive.

I cannot imagine a scenario where it would make sense to install an old IDE drive today and much less as replacement for SATA.

Probably the sensible thing to do is install an SSD if the SATA drive needs to be replaced.

But we would need to know more and why.

[AndyBeez]

If you have to install an IDE drive and, there is no IDE port on the motherboard, you can use an IDE(PATA) to SATA adapter card. See attached. The required cable is a 80 wire, 40 pin PATA IDE ribbon cable.


Edit: For future finders, the adapter needs to be a bi-directional Parallel ATA(IDE) to SATA type. That's SATA into the motherboard and PATA(IDE) out to the HDD. The HDD should be visible in the BIOS as a SATA HDD. Deployment of a Secondary IDE device, which is normally the legacy CD-ROM drive attached to the same ribbon cable, might not be available via your adapter. Generally, one adapter per IDE device.

[Doctorandus_P]

Those parallel interfaces (No 2) have been obsolete for 15 to 20 years, and it makes no sense whatsoever to use them. Those things are very slow, have little storage, and their age makes them unreliable. You can get second hand SATA drives for about the same price as an adapter. Those adapters also mostly make sense if you want to recover data from such an old drive.

[soldar]

I have maybe 15 or more old IDE drives that I have taken from scrapped computers over the years. I have USB adapters so I can plug them in to a USB port and I use them for backups. They are good for that purpose. Plug 'n copy. Unplug 'n store.

And they are free.