It's been a while since I went shopping for a new computer and I wasn't even aware of the existence of a different kind of hard drive hookup, serial ata. But it seems like 90 percent of the new computers have that setup now. I bought a new computer and it has the serial ata hard drive in it, and the only parallel (ide) hookup on the board is being used by the 2 dvd drives. I need to get all my data from my old computer to the new one but I also wanted to keep my hard drive in the new computer. By the way I'd prefer not to get into networking and it wouldn't solve the problem of not being able to keep the other drive in the new computer. It's a 200 GB hard drive and I just got it last month! It would have given me 400 gigs total storage if I could have used both the new drive and my drive in the new computer. How come the office stores seem to still being selling the old parallel or ide hookup while all computers have the serial ata hookup? Very frustrating to find that a drive purchased a few weeks ago couldn't just be dropped into an open bay in the new computer because it's incompatible!. So can anyone help me with this?