Replace ATA-100 hdd with new ATA-133?

Wow, this is a cool board!

Curious on the question only because I saw a new Samsung drive with a 3 yr. warrantee from NeW Egg.

I want to replace the orig drive before it fries itself. Have second drive (IBM 45 gig). I just want to PnP on this one, not add PCI to ATA cards or replace the MB. My computer skills are, well, if it breaks, and somebody tells me how to fix it, I can! I suppose I am at some softward tweaking level. I do web pages.

System: 3 year old Dell Dimension 4100
Assume mother board ATA-100
Win. XP Pro
Plenty of memory

Thanks!

 

I've never seen an ATA drive that didn't support slower ATA interface speeds.

 

in other words, you should have no problem whatsoever with the new drive.

now, all you need to do is make sure the jumper settings of the drives are correct.

If you plan to format the new drive as the primary Windows drive, set it to Master, and connect it on the end of the IDE cable. Then the second 45GB drive would be set to Slave and connected on the middle of that same IDE cable.