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I found a old hard drive on my basement. No idea what it has. How would I be able to plug this on a modern computer? Looks like this:

 

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My computer parts are from 2 years ago, the motherboard does not have these type of cables. I remember these old annoying wide cables that were replaced by SATA, and the power cable isn't also the same. Perhaps there are converters. What type of cables would I need? Current MOBO is GB X570. Cheers.

 

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1 minute ago, superbuu said:

I found a old hard drive on my basement. No idea what it has. How would I be able to plug this on a modern computer? Looks like this:

 

394_1.jpg

 

My computer parts are from 2 years ago, the motherboard does not have these type of cables. I remember these old annoying wide cables that were replaced by SATA, and the power cable isn't also the same. Perhaps there are converters. What type of cables would I need? Current MOBO is GB X570. Cheers.

 

That drive uses IDE for data and molex for power. Molex should be easy, but if your mobo doesn’t have IDE (it almost definitely doesn’t), you are out of luck. Maybe someone makes a PCIe IDE adapter, I have never looked. 

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2 minutes ago, superbuu said:

I found a old hard drive on my basement. No idea what it has. How would I be able to plug this on a modern computer? Looks like this:

 

394_1.jpg

 

My computer parts are from 2 years ago, the motherboard does not have these type of cables. I remember these old annoying wide cables that were replaced by SATA, and the power cable isn't also the same. Perhaps there are converters. What type of cables would I need? Current MOBO is GB X570. Cheers.

 

You can find IDE to USB adapters pretty cheap.

 

Universal Drive Adapter (ifixit.com)

 

I have a couple of these, there's probably cheaper ones out there though that'll work just fine.

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All you need is a USB to IDE adapter or an IDE to SATA adapter, then plug a Molex 4-pin into it for power.

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54 minutes ago, superbuu said:

I found a old hard drive on my basement. No idea what it has. How would I be able to plug this on a modern computer? Looks like this:

 

394_1.jpg

 

My computer parts are from 2 years ago, the motherboard does not have these type of cables. I remember these old annoying wide cables that were replaced by SATA, and the power cable isn't also the same. Perhaps there are converters. What type of cables would I need? Current MOBO is GB X570. Cheers.

 

That's for sure like a 8GB ish seagate drive from ages ago, not even a modern ide drive.
you need one of these cheap little adapters https://www.amazon.com/Cablecc-Female-Converter-Adapter-Desktop/dp/B081YP2S5R

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Late to the party but thats fitting considering how old this post made me feel. I think I still have a few ide drives and cables laying around. I still even have my usb adapter with a molex power supply. Anyone one else remember having to move the jumpers for master and slave?

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