Re: Moving a hard drive w/ a Gateway-installed OEM WindowsXPto a new mobo

On 1/16/07, Jones, John (US) <John.Jones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Assuming you're using the old ATA/EIDE drive interface and not SATA, the
new mobo probably supports ATA133 and has an 80-pin HD IDE cable.
Looks, smells, sounds, feels, and tastes like the ancient 40-pin cables
but you definitely want to use it for the HD.

<whooshing noise over my head>
How can a 40-pin cable plug into an 80-pin mobo connector?  The HD that
shipped with the Gateway is a 40-pin EIDE (a WD 80GB 7200RPM), 100 MB/s
using Mode 5 Ultra ATA.
BTW, the Gateway PC isn't that old, it's about 4 years old.  Is that
ancient?!?!?  (My 266MHz boxes are what I consider ancient.)

Optical drives don't

matter so much and can use the old 40 pin cables.  And since this sounds
like a box with a single HD, put the HD & optical drives on different
IDE channels.  Marginally better performance and better stability.

Two HDs, on the same IDE channel; boot drive is master.

- Dan