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

[Begbie]

Got this mixture and works fine, altough my IDE gets plugged in via adapter to sata.

 

[PinkFloyd]

Shouldn't make a difference. Ideally I'd only leave the drive you want in as the boot drive when you are installing windows. Not necessary, but a habit I've got into that will always save tears later if your not concentrating!

 

[thegoonden]

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?

Why would it?
Unless you brought a pre-formatted drive.

 

[BlackBat]

LOL, didn't spot that myself when I first read it (too much wine maybe?).

Cairnsey, if it hasn't occured to you already, format the drive and it should show up in 'My Computer'.

 

[thegoonden]

It'd show up (I 90% sure) if partitioned and not formatted.

But drives ship unpartitioned. Poor DOS-XP can't be blamed, it doesn't know if it's D: or D:
E: F: G: H: I: AND J:

 

[Squark]

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.

Is that true?

What are the benefits of using AHCI?

 

[Cairnsey]

Why would it?
Unless you brought a pre-formatted drive.

Because it came out of another system, formatted to NTFS but with lots of stuff on I might want.

 

[adbp1]

its fine for me, i have vista on sata and xp on the old ide.

 

[ethan]

I have a 160GB HDD on SATA II and an IDE DVD drive. Never had a single problem so far

I echo the above. No problems at all. You can select Ide mode for you sata drive anyway.

 

[sir-les-mp]

same here i have 5 sata hdd's and 3 ide opticals no problems
also occasionaly install ide hdd to back up those most inportant file's and don get any problems
if you are doing a fresh install then would recomend connectin justsat drive till os instlled then reconnect ide that way sata disk get's C:\ identifier in window's

 

[OVC]

Yeah no problem but I would advise on your next build you backup your data and move over the SATA completely. One you move the SATA you will never turn back.

 

[taz488]

i have a sata as main drive and a ide hard drive for storage, works fine

 

[Bonjour]

I've a SATA RAID array for Windows and a smaller IDE drive with Linux on it. No problems at all so far.

 

[Cairnsey]

LOL, didn't spot that myself when I first read it (too much wine maybe?).

Cairnsey, if it hasn't occured to you already, format the drive and it should show up in 'My Computer'.

I don't doubt it for a second, but thats not my point. My point is why hasn't appeared without a re-partition/format?

 

[Cairnsey]

anyone? I might need the data thats on there

 

[Dark_Angel]

I up until recently had:

250GB drive (IDE)
120GB Partion (windows XP)
120GB Partion (random data)

120GB Drive (IDE)
1 partion

500GB Drive (SATA)
100GB Partion (Vista 64)
400GB Partion (random data)

Now though am just running the 2 satas, and put the IDE drives in to my server.

 

[bledd]

you can mix as many types of drive as you want, as long as you can 'fit' them to the motherboard or a pci card etc you could have scsi, ata, sata and sas in one pc, no problems whatsoever

 

[Maccy]

^^ Just make sure that they're screwed in properly, as to avoid any shortcircuiting etc

 

[BlackBat]

Cairnsey, have you checked under disk management to see if the drive shows there?
If it is, check to see if it is initialised.