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 ...

This is part of the ongoing disaster HDD saga. I have a few IDE drives from my old systems that my have some of the Series files I lost. I need to know the jumper settings for the HDDs them to be ...

StarTech.com's UNIDUPDOCK Hard Drive Duplicator Docking Station can be used as either a standalone hard drive cloning station for 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch SATA or IDE HDDs (or any combination IDE/SATA 2.5 ...

We have seen lots of docks where you can plug in a SATA drive turning it into an external HDD via USB or eSATA connectivity. Sharkoon has offered up a new docking station today called the QuickPort ...

X-bit Labs rates 13 different IDE hard disk drives. Interestingly enough, no particular hard drive dominates more than a handful of the benchmark tests. Read We may earn a commission when you buy ...

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 ...

Depending on the model, a Compaq Presario might use a SATA hard drive or an IDE drive. The former is found in most models released after 2003, and the latter in earlier PCs. Replacing an IDE drive is ...

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.

The project makes use of an IDE hard drive in order to build a standalone MP3 player designed for car, home, or portable use. A group of MP3 files are played as the MP3 player reads FAT32 file system ...

Like Westley in the "Princess Bride" sometimes hard drives are only mostly dead. If you have a drive that appears kaput, you can sometimes retrieve the data off of it using a USB to SATA/IDE connector ...