Do i have ATA or SATA?

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spikoman69

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Is there a difference? i need to know what i have, because of an amazing deal on a HDD on black friday. 200gb-$20

I have the dell dimension 4500s

Also, i need details on how to hook this harddrive up to ghost my old one to it, i only have 2 ide slots, one with my current harddrive, and one with my cd-rw. So do i disconnect my optical drive and use those cables to hook up the new drive, then ghost my old one to it?
 
SATA is faster usually newer dells ship with sata just open the case up and see the big huge cable big=ata small=sata about ghosting the hard drive i have not worked with norton ghost so no advice on that but yeah 200 gb HD is an excelent deal for 20 bucks
 
You will have IDE drives. You can have two drives per IDE channel (connector). It does not look like your Dell has SATA.

Why go through the trouble of ghosting it? Just hook it up and just use it as a second hard drive.
 
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