Dimension 3000 IDE to SATA?

Optiplex11

Optiplex11

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A while back I mentioned that I was having drive issues with my D-3000 and I figured I have an entirely bad drive. I have been getting mixed results on this, so I need some help. I don't have any IDE drives to replace the old one, but I have some SATA drives. If I buy an IDE to SATA adapter, do I need anything else? Some places are saying the adapter is all I need, while some say I need a PCI SATA card. I'm coming back to this project because I have A TON of retro games lying around along with an unused copy of XP. The drive I want to use is a Seagate 1TB drive, from what I have seen there isn't a size limit. Thanks for the help!
 
You should be OK with just the IDE to SATA adapter, but you may need to partition the drive so the computer / Windows can use all the space. (it's been a while since I had to deal with older drives)
 
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