Question about my new motherboard and old hdd working

nnbnbI am thinking about buying a new pc but using my old HDD to power it. I am buying a bare-bones kit from tigerdirect.com. The motherboard has a ATA-100 IDE port on it. and my old HDD is a pata drive so I am wondering if I plug it in will it work? I also have a DDO on it so that win XP can boot from the HDD.

here is a link to the mother board I am buying in the kit that comes with everything.



www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchT...01&sku=P450-9106

Hopefully you can help me out the HDD I am using is a PATA drive 300 GB made by Maxtor and uses a DDO to boot WIN XP. Post questions if you have any I'll tr to answer them as best I can.

nnbnbI'm fairly sure that this is my HDD.



www.jr.com/JRProductPage.process?Product...Source=nsa&nsa=1

I think your hard drive should be fine. P-ATA is just another way of saying IDE I believe.

no there are all different versions of IDE supported hdd's and every IDE has different bus speeds and can support different hdd's so thats why i asked I wasn't sure but it looks as though it will work. unless anyone can tell me different.

Well, I wouldn't listen to me then..haha. I have never checked a speed or anything else regarding IDE drives. I have never had one that didn't work.

you do need to check the IDE cabling will work. My HDD did require an IDE port on the Mobo that was ata-100 or better. SO i bought an EGI mobo and it worked phenomenal.