I just recently got a new rig, and now I want to copy some files off of my old IDE HDD onto my new SATA HDD. I've hooked up the IDE and tried jumpering it as "neutral position" "single position" "dual ...

I am helping a man who has a Tandy 1000 TL/2 computer that has been in daily use for well over 10 years! The system finally failed, but the man wants to recover the data he has accumulated over the ...

Sabrent has the true one-stop storage management solution for SATA and IDE HDDs, SSDs, and optical drives like CD/DVD-RW. It easily connects to Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems and other ...

The project utilizes the 82C55 chip in order to create a simple design of connecting a standard IDE interface hard drive to a 8051 board. It uses a software that can provide access to raw sectors ...

For system builders, this situation presents a great opportunity to distinguish themselves from Tier One system vendors. While they are still pushing systems with essentially obsolete disk technology, ...

Early home PCs usually had a floppy disk and a simple hard drive controller. Later, IDE hard drives became the defacto standard. Of course, these days, you are more likely to find some version of SATA ...

Master and slave settings on IDE hard drives are designed so you can put two drives on a single IDE cable. One acts as the master or main drive and the other is the slave. A hard drive's master or ...

The host protected area (HPA) and device configuration overlay (DCO) are two areas at the end of SATA and IDE hard disk drives that are only accessible via special utilities but not the operating ...

Reader Fred wants to know if a laptop hard drive can be plugged into a desktop PC. “The pin out appears to be the same,” he notes, “but there is no separate power-supply connector.” Short answer: yes.