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Help with Drive Upgrade Process on Old PC

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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?
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Chimpware said:
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?
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Try a USB - SATA\IDE adapter.
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Yeah might do that, just saw one on Geeks.com.
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