Sounds like you encountered quite a few issues, but alas we learn by trial and error. Indeed. But that's one of the big advantages of having an...
BTW, if you add the SATA drive, how do you intend to do it? Does your motherboard have both ATA and SATA ports? Or will you also be adding a SATA...
This doesn't address exactly your question, but my experience is closely related, so fwiw... I have a PC with 3 120GB IDE drives, the system...
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