[imgachu]

So I finally got my replacement motherboard (thanks to the help on this forum!) and my computer was working fine yesterday. Now it will turn on but apparently my hard drive is dead. The BIOS won't find it (but it finds the slave) and windows can't install to it. So I'm thinking it kicked the bucket. I'll find out for sure tomorrow when I try to slave it up to something.

Anyways, I'm getting to the point where I'm thinking about getting a new computer at this rate. I love my computer but seriously, this is becoming a pain in the *** and while getting another hard drive and a used motherboard is cheaper, I also know that my computer itself is out of date.

So, since there's nothing wrong with my slave drive and it's technically my back up drive and it's not even a year old, if I get a new computer, which will most likely come with ATA drives, is it possible to convert an IDE drive to ATA and not lose all the data.

I saw this:
http://www.addonics.com/products/io/ide_sata.asp
and that looks like exactly what I would need if I chose to get a new computer, but I just wanted to make sure with someone who knew their stuff, because well, I'm not hardware smart. lol.

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

Wouldn't be neccessary though.

Why not just plug the IDE HDD into the IDE slot, and any other SATA HDD or other devices you get, into the SATA ports?

Definatly no data loss.