I'm buying a new COMPUTER and the HDD will be SATA. I have an old IDE HDD from my old computer and I wanted to use it in my new machine as a slave like it was in my old one. I was wondering if anyone knows a way to do this. I heard there is a device you can HOOK up via usb and the IDE HDD would go inside of that. I haven't been ABLE to find one though. Any ideas? Thanks.The thing your talking about is a hard drive enclosure... you can buy them from most pc hardware component shops.

You could buy one of these, which will connect to your computer via USB or firewire depending on the enclosure you buy and make the HDD an external storage drive.

Or you could just slave the drive and plug it in via IDE in your new computer (are you buying a package or custom building?) as most (I have not came across one which doesn't have... yet...) motherboards have at least 1 IDE channel.I'm buying a PRE built. It's going to get me through while I build one then it will be my spare. I guess I'll wait until I receive the pc and look into using the IDE on the mobo. So that would be fine? It will see both types off HDD's? Well worst come to worst I'll buy one of those hard drive enclosures. Thanks.Yeah it should see both of the HD's without a fuss.

Post back if you run into any PROBLEMS Or there is no need for an enclosure...if the machine is shipped with a SATA drive it doesn't mean you cannot run an IDE drive.
Just hook it up internally and it will run fine.