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Hi there,

I was wondering if its ok (as in wont mess any of my hardware up) to put a (non boot) Sata hard drive in serise with a CD/DVD drive in an IDE cable? and have my boot HDD on a SATA II pot (the boot disk) ?

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Hello Curly

Welcome to TCF

You can't put a sata drive, hard disk or optical on the same cable as an IDE device.
The connections are different.
You can however have a sata drive as the main boot drive, it just depends how you set the arrangement in the bios as to the first boot device.
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Hey man,

Hmm, ok, i have tried to do what i sudgested and it seemed to work but i was advised against it (albeit by someone i dont really trust on such matters :P ) the drisk i put in seise was a boot disk (it wasnt a sata II disk just to clarify) the problem i have is that i bought a new motherboard and i didnt cheak if it had enough IDE slots to support 2 hard drives and two disk drives . Instead it has but one IDE slot and 4 SATA II slots :(

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Ok let me get this right.
You have 2 sata hard drives and 1 IDE cdrom yes?
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