IDE Hard drive upgrade

[CIS121]

The hard drive's gone in one of my PCs and I'm looking to replace it. It's a IDE 40GBdrive from about 5 years ago. Can I replace it with any IDE hard drive or are there likely to be compatibility issues?

I've been looking at drives with ATA100 and ATA133 speeds, but will these work with all IDE connections or do yuo need a more modenr motherboard to work with these later protocols?

[LukeBird]

Probably best if you post your motherboard specs on here (they should be compatible, but always best to check ) Performance won't make any difference between ATA100/133 as the drives can't physically shift data that quick (although they just might if you're running RAID)

[grumbledoak]

If you post specs someone might get geeky and look it up for you. But, basically, pretty much any IDE drive should work fine.

[CIS121]

Thansk folks. I was just worried that a 133 drive might not work if it came with a 100 one.

Thanks!

[grumbledoak]

Backwards compatible. If you get a whizzy new 133 and your motherboard can only drive a 100, it should function as a 100. You'll have wasted a little cash, but it should still work.

http://forums.tweaktown.com/archive/index.php/t-76...

[ATG]

backward compatibility shouldn't be a problem

[Hooli]

only thing that might cause you a problem is forgetting the set the jumpers correctly. if you do that then the PC might not even see the drive.
jsut check the settings on the old one, it'll either be master or cable select & set the new one the same.