When you start up your computer, the BIOS scans the memory and checks the video adapter before searching the hard drives for a bootable operating system. If you have a misconfigured hard drive or one ...

Most modern computers use SATA hard drives because they transfer data considerably faster and are more versatile than older IDE drives. However, many modern motherboards still support IDE ribbon ...

A10, the latest BIOS from Dell's website, but no IDE drives are being picked up by the BIOS, neither the CD-ROM or the hard drive. controller smoked? this PC was running windows 2000 pro for over a ...

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 ...