Install extra Hard Drive

Problem: If You have 2 Hard drives in one pc ; one is IDE and another One is Ribbon cable. If you want to use another HARD DRIVE in the system..............What You have to do ?

You may have 2 cdrom and One IDE and TWO RiBBON cable.

Solution : Does the computer have USB 2.0? You can use a USB ide/sata external drive adapter.

Or

you can add a controller card if you have a spare PCI slot in the computer.

Or

You can add more drives by installing a drive controller card (Promise controllers cards are very popular), or you can use an external USB hard drive.