I have popped my motherboard so need a replacement. It was my fault, I did something silly and I don't want to talk about it 
Previously I had one hard drive and 2 DVD writers on IDE, but modern MB's only have 1 channel IDE so something has to go!
I do have a SATA drive in a caddy which I could use, but I want to keep my current version of windows going. Can I put the old IDE hard drive in a
caddy, the SATA in its caddy and just copy one to the other (by plugging both into my Vista lappy) and fit the SATA to the new MB.
Sounds too simple to me
Or does anyone have a ASUS M2V MB for beer tokens?
when i recently upgraded my PC i came accross the same thing.
i put my two hard drives on the IDE port, the cable takes two devices, one as master and one as slave.
then just bought a sata DVD drive.
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Originally posted by Mark Allanson
I do have a SATA drive in a caddy which I could use, but I want to keep my current version of windows going. Can I put the old IDE hard drive in a caddy, the SATA in its caddy and just copy one to the other (by plugging both into my Vista lappy) and fit the SATA to the new MB.
Sounds too simple to me
Aria, Microdirect and many others were selling plug in converters, plug them into an IDE drive and it can be used as a SATA one. Just a PCB with a
chip and connectors on.
Alternatively just buy a PCI IDE card and plug it into the motherboard.
Finally they have SATA DVD writers for fiteen quid.
Well that has given me thing to consider that I didn't even know about - over to ebuyer!
Thanks guys
or replace the mb for £40
http://www.pcupgrade.co.uk/productdetails.asp?ProductID=2320&categoryid=272
or ebay item 250480960822
Keeping your existing windows installation using substantially different hardware (i.e. motherboard!) may give you problems! Sometimes it works ok and windows sorts itself out, but it can be a blue screen nightmare.
One warning with Sata hard drives. I've been told that they spin far faster than the IDE ones and therefore last about 3-4 years. I've had 2 IDE ones in my old pc for nearly 7 years now and the only problems I've had is a few bad sectors one the one that gets battered.