Can you have 1 Sata and 1 IDE drive in the same machine?

well they might disagree about something, say a football match, and start fighting. try to keep them away from stella, that might help.

(no. they'll be fine.)

PK!
 
Are you guys sure?

i've seen a case before when some1 has mixed the 2 types and it ended up screwing one of the up.

just dont want to lose the data on each so want to make sure that it is defo safe.
 
If i remember rightly, if your using the sata as the boot drive...unplug the ide drive when you install to make sure it installs as the C: drive. I think i had probs with this...but then i have had several beers so may be wrong...
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Edit: Ninja'd. And those comments are better than my one.

But yeah, s'fine.
I've done it previously, and a friend still does it (using SATA for his boot drive) and has no problems, to my recollection.
 
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Download box at home has he following config

C: 80GB SATA
D: 500GB SATA
E: 160GB IDE
F: 120GB IDE

with no problems at all, to be fair it's never turned off, but it just works

this is on a DFI NF4-SLI DR
 
If its a fresh install of windows, and you are planning on using the SATA drive as boot drive, just connect the SATA drive until windows has been installed then connect the IDE Drive when ready, just to make sure the SATA drive gets assigned C:
 
The manual for my mo-bo said the same, disconnect IDE HDD if using SATA HDD for boot drive when installing the O.S. Think it also mentions something about not being able to use AHCI if you're running both interfaces too.
 
yeh make sure you get the the master/slave settings correct. otherwise you may be puzzled at why it doesnt work all over a jumper :)
 
I have 1 sata and 1 IDE.

to Be safe dont put the IDE in first (if ya building) run it on the Sata and install all that you'll want (to date) on that drive.
then bung in ya IDE and it shouldnt be confusing and know which is the master.
 
I have just added a SATA drive to my IDE setup, windows detects it, it appears in the BIOS but not in my computer. I've looked in admin tools, disk mgmnt and it's there also. Why doesn't it just appear as d:\ in my PC? I know I should probably delete the partition, create a new one then format to solve it. But why doesn't it just appear as D:\ in My Computer?
 
There's no problem with 1 SATA (c: drive) & 1 IDE. I've been using that set up for nearly four years.

I wanted to go all SATA last year, but the 250gb drive I purchased came with an IDE interface, which was unexpected and a tad frustrating.
 
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