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[Sean]

Several days ago, I bought a new computer and I had a hard drive. Want to install my old hard drive to my new computer. The old one is Seagate 250 GB Hard Drive IDE. When I install it for my computer, I found that my new computer installed a sata hard drive. Then I asked the seller, he told me I need buy a SATA hard drive. Obviously, I bought a wrong one. However, I don’t want to return it. Because I am urge to use it, and it will cost a long time to return and get my replacement, which is so upset.
Is there any way for me to use this ide hard drive on my new computer? I ask for help in Google. And one guy tells me that it could be. Moreover, I learn something about the ide and sata. I found the info, in one website. It says ide (ATA) is a disk drive implementation that integrates the controller on the disk drive itself. ATA is used to connect hard disk drives, CD-ROM drives and similar peripherals and supports 8/16-bit interface that transfer up to 8.3MB/s for ATA-2 and up to 100MB/s (ATA-6). To be frankly, I can’t understand it exactly. I am not familiar with that. I just know that the sata hard drive is in most new computer. The sata hard drive is faster than ide style hard drives. I don’t know why. The point I concerned is whether my ide hard drive can be used in my installed sata hard drive computer?
Someone say if I have an ide drive and want to use in my computer, I can connect the ide drive to my computer where a sata drive has. One solution: I can open my computer system unit. If there also has an ide connection. I can plug my ide drive data and power cables. Then turn on computer. Both drives will show up in my desktop. The other solution: If no ide connector on my new computer, I should buy a kit to change my old ide drive into an external drive with an usb interface. Just using an usb cable can connect my ide drive to my new computer. I will try it and let them know whether or not these work out for me.