Will enhanced ide work with modern components?

[Aashwin Shankar]

Hello, I have 3 enhanced IDE hard drives that have the 19 pin, 10 pin, and 4 pin places to plug into. I was going to buy This PSU http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817438012 or this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182330 along with this mobo http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128659. I wanted to use the OS from one of the old hard drives in my new system and upgrade them to windows 10 and transfer them to the ssd i will get. Anyway I wanted to know if there is some way I could use these with the new components? What type of adapters will I need? Will it even work?

 

[ezskills]

You could get it to work with one of these IDE to SATA Adapter Converter and you'll be ready to do what you want.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&Description=ide%20to%20sata%20converter&bop=And&N=8000&page=1

 

[Aashwin Shankar]

You could get it to work with one of these IDE to SATA Adapter Converter and you'll be ready to do what you want.


http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&Description=ide%20to%20sata%20converter&bop=And&N=8000&page=1

What is the 10 pin connector used for? If you know. Also will I need a molex to sata converter?

 

[ezskills]

The 10 pin spot on the Ide Hard drive is where you put a jumper to tell the computer which hard drive is the master and which one is the slave (secondary drive) the 4 pin is the power and the 19 is the one that goer to a ide motherboard. You won't need a molex to sata converter because both power supplies have the right sata power cables the only reason you need a IDE to SATA Adapter Converter is because newer motherboards don't support IDE any more with out a IDE to SATA Adapter Converter to plug the Ide drive to the motherboard other wise there will be no where to plug the hard drive.

http://www.pchell.com/images/masterslave.jpg 10 PIn