SATA and IDE...

[Lead_Head]

This might be a stupid question but I don't know the answer and don't fancy taking the risk without asking first.

Can I run a SATA and IDE hard drive in the same machine? The reason I'm asking is that I've got 2 hard drives that are collecting dust so I'd rather make use of them or sell them off.

If I can use them together is there a program I can use to completely delete everything on the disk and make it unrecoverable?

Cheers,

 

[Lead_Head]

Sometimes a personal opinion or reply is better than a bunch of text thrown out from Google, or someones personal experience in doing so. Like you've said making sure BIOS is setup correctly to boot from the correct drive. A webpage wouldn't necessarily throw that kind of information up.

I read the Sticky but couldn't find any information relating to my question but thanks for the 2 links