Wasted hard drive

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EvilPokemon

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I just bought a new motherboard and cpu(a 3ghz quad), and I also bought a new hard drive along with it. I'm lazy so I left them packaged up for about a month and a half before I installed anything. I come to discover that I ordered an ATA hard drive and it won't work with my new rig.
So I've got a 500gb drive that's going to function as a very expensive paper weight.

Anyone else run into the ATA barrier?(Not necessarily because you're a giant idiot, like myself?)
 
why not use one of these or put it in an external housing and use it for backups?
 
You can always sell it in the forums here, I'm certain some users will be looking for these :)
 
What motherboard do you have? I rarely encounter a mobo without IDE support. /shrug
 
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