Note: This particular help/fix is not for everybody
A lot of you out there are probably like me, and had the drives from your
old XP machines when you upgraded. In my case, 80GB and 250GB Barracudas.
Unfortunately, the mobo in my Acer only has 1 IDE controller on it, and I
damn sure wanted to use them. I set up the system initially with the DVD and
extra CDRW I had laying around removed, and just the HDDs in place.
Obviously they don't have the transfer rate of my 3Gb/s SATA drive, so
suffice it to say I got the transfer rates a number of people posting here
have mentioned. Now, I wanted to use my hard drives AND the DVD&CDRW, so I
started looking around for an answer. I came across this...
http://www.xpcgear.com/ide2sata.html
Cheap and kicked the transfer rate up to 1.5Gb/s. Everything passes through
invisibly, BIOS sees them with zero problems. Same with Vista. Transferring
a 4.7GB folder without the adapters on my system took about a hour or so.
Took roughly 2-3 mins WITH them. Hell of a boost. I HIGHLY recommend these
adapters guys and gals if you have the same problem I did. This is one of
those rare, I'll be damn, something actually works as advertised moments
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