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    Inspiron 9300, Using a SATA hard drive on a IDE motherboard

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by altarace, Jul 29, 2008.

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    Hi All,

    My IDE harddrive is dead on my inspiron 9300 and I was wondering if I can somehow use a SATA drive even though my motherboard is IDE?

    Is there an adapter for this?

    Thanks, Mike
     
    altarace, Jul 29, 2008
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