Do you need a new installation of XP on a new motherboard?

[MOVIEGEEK]

So you're saying there is a PATA ADAPTER PCI CARD for mobo's with ONLY sata interfaces?

AFAIK all mobo's have IDE(PATA) sockets.One other note:using a PCI adapter will limit the transfer speed to 16.5/MBps.
BTW...make sure your PSU has a SATA power connector or buy an adapter.

[TBoneit]

You can buy PATA only PCI cards, You can Buy SATA only PCI Cards, or you can buy a PCI card withy PATA and SATA.

Sounds like a plan to me $50 for XP! Go for it. I also prefer XP over 2000

[TBoneit]

So you're saying there is a PATA ADAPTER PCI CARD for mobo's with ONLY sata interfaces?

AFAIK all mobo's have IDE(PATA) sockets.One other note:using a PCI adapter will limit the transfer speed to 16.5/MBps.
BTW...make sure your PSU has a SATA power connector or buy an adapter.

sorry I disagree about the speed loss over PCI. Another option is buy some of the USB to IDE adapters that are available.

[lenti_75]

So you're saying there is a PATA ADAPTER PCI CARD for mobo's with ONLY sata interfaces?

all mobo's have pata connectors, but not all have sata.

to use sata on non-sata mobo, you ge a pci adapter.

[yoda313]

all mobo's have pata connectors, but not all have sata.

Thank you. That's two people saying pata will work on all mobo's. I have two pata drives I want to move so that's great.

[TBoneit]

OTOH, I have seen Motherboards with only one PATA connector. That one is usually needed for the DVD/CDrom and then typical 4 SATA on that kind of inexpensive board.

So when you say two PATA drives hopefully you mean Optical not optical + 2 PATA hard drives.

Find the homepage for the motherboards you are interested in and look at the specs and pictures.

IMHO you can't have enough connectivity...IE 3 PATA + 4 or more SATA + 8 USB2 or 1 PATA & 8 SATA + 8USB2 etc.
and some have plenty of both bu those tend to be over $200 for the board.

The one I use at home has 4 IDE + 2 SATA + 8 USB2 for example as it is an older board and SATA was very new then. Now I'd be looking for the faster SATA 300 w/4-6 SATA and at least 2 IDE (PATA)

However, I went frugal and got a small Mobo for my new AMD encoding/Burning + DVD backup only system that has 2 IDE & 2 SATA 300. Why? I'll be moving files to it on a USB2 removable and when they've converted I'll be burning and deleting.

[TBoneit]

Don't forget the Power Supply I went a 550watt Gearmax as I could lay my hands on it cheap. two fans, plenety of reserve power. 4 SATA plus 2 floppy + (as I rmember it) 6 standard connectore for IDE drives. 20/24 pin power connector

Other nice feature all the cables from it are mesh wrapped which makes it easy to route and gives a rounded cable look for those interested in that sort of thing.

[yoda313]

Well thank you all for the wonderful suggestions and insights. However the choices and prices were driving me crazy so I ended up getting a settop dvd recorder instead. Its a liteon lvw1107hc1. I like it and its quite easy to use and will save me the step and quality loss of recording to vhs and then dubbing to dvd via the pc.

[Bjs]

There are cable's and converter's available ...

Of course my motherboard has both ide and sata (raid)

[Doramius]

I think you'll be happy with the WinXP upgrade. You can basically do a full install.

Easiest way is if you have 2 disc drives. The first disc drive 9Preferably in the Master/secondary IDE channel) set to Primary boot, and place your XP disc in it. The second disc drive (preferably in a slave position) should be listed lower on the boot priority, or not listed as a boot device at all. I believe all it really needs to do is find an existing copy of an OS somewhere. Run from the CD drive to install XP and choose NTFS. Don't need to install Win2K at all.

That's how I load OSs on all my PCs. Heck of a lot cheaper to get Upgrade discs.