Addig a new hard drive

[reevesy_vtr]

Hi all i dont know much about computers so take it easy on me. I have a pc with a 180gb ide hard drive and am wanting to put in a 1gb sata hard drive. My question is can i use an ide hard drive at the same time as a sata hard drive, the mother board has 2 sata ports but is there a limit to the size of the hard drive that you can use on an older mother board.
If i can add a sata drive is it just the same as adding an ide drive in the way of formatting it with windows.
Once i have done this i want to move all the stuff from the ide drive to the sata drive, is this easy to do?
Thanks

[chester-lad]

just plug a sata one in mate you mite need to get the power cable from the molex to im not sure what the connector is called load your PC up the hard drive will be there job done ....

edit this is what it used to power sata hard drive http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2x-4-PIN-MOLEX...item255e1a83a1

[_-john-_]

Yup, can use sata along side ide no problem. The power connectors are the same, you might find that it won't power up if you use it off a chain that is powering things like the graphics card/another hard drive though, depends on the wattage of the PSU. But it's very simple and should show up in the explorer once plugged in. You will need to format it in NTFS format if the drive in already is.

[reevesy_vtr]

NTFS WTF........ lol i dont get this computer stuff.
so basicly i plug in the new hard drive, boot from the windows disc then load windows onto it then done?
then can i just drag and drop my files and projrams over from drive to drive? or can i just set everything to save on the big drive like itunes ect and leave the small drive in?
thanks for the help guys

[GJF47]

Better off downloading Hirens Boot CD mate and using Ghost to image one drive onto the other once you have got both drives plugged in

http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download.html?start=8