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Help with Drive Upgrade Process on Old PC

Discussion in 'TiVo Series3 HDTV DVRs' started by Chimpware, Oct 10, 2007.

  1. Oct 10, 2007 #1 of 3
    Chimpware

    Chimpware New Member

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    All my current PCs do not have internal SATA header on the motherboard, all IDE. So I ordered 2 IDE to SATA converters from ebay similar to this:

    IDE to SATA Converter

    Problem is now if I use up both IDE headers for the SATA drives either to marry an external drive SATA, or upgrade the current internal Tivo drive I cannot boot my computer either into Windows from current IDE drive, or Linux using IDE CD-ROM.

    Anyone think of a way to get this to work or am I SOL with this setup?
     
  2. Oct 10, 2007 #2 of 3
    cr33p

    cr33p New Member

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    Try a USB - SATA\IDE adapter.
     
  3. Oct 10, 2007 #3 of 3
    Chimpware

    Chimpware New Member

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    Yeah might do that, just saw one on Geeks.com.
     

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