Long Hard Drive Question

Mikey1

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I have right now a 160gb hard drive that has windows and all my music/games/everything. It is IDE

I have a spare 80gb hard drive that has windows xp pro on it and nothing else. It is SATA

Can i have 2 hard drives ( one SATA and one IDE ) that both have windows on it hooked up at the same time. I want my windows to run from the SATA 80gb and just like open music and internet from the 160gb IDE..
 
Yes, it should work. In theory, your SATAdrive doesn't have to mess with your IDE. Just, SATA will be Master compared to the IDE controller.
 
I don't know. Maybe all SATA ports comes Master or all comes as slave. I don't remember. But, I know it will work.
 
I have them Both hooked up as MAsters and it works fine i have sent all my files over to the sata and my IDE is pretty clean now. But when i tried to send my program files over it said that it may effect how the programs run.
 
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