I am thinking of updating an old P4 rig I have and giving it some SATA functionality and was wondering if you install a SATA PCI card into a system that has no SATA slots, could you have the OS installed on one of the SATA drives or would it have to be on an IDE drive that connects directly to the mobo?
SATA PCI Cards OS Boot Up Question
- Thread starter Alty
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All it is is that I have an old P4 system that is perfectly fine but since I have a preferred games rig now I want to turn the old system into a server in my CM Stacker and basically leave it on 24/7 and have SATA caddies down the front so that I can hot-swap new disks in and out at will. Since the old mobo only has IDE capability I could still install the OS on an IDE drive but was just curious if it was possible to boot from a SATA drive on an IDE based mobo.