I have a 40 gig Maxtor hd drv from another computer. Specifically, it is the DiamondMax Plus 8 40GB ATA/133 HDD manufactured in 2002. I'd like to add it to my Dell 5100 as a storage drive/slave. Dell uses a plastic drive holder and the power supply is different than the 4-post connection of older computers. I can make the plastic holder work, but, is there an adapter to make this power connection or is it worth the trouble?

As far as I can see the Dimension 5100 uses only SATA drives.

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/D...tegory_id=5694

The power connector would be the same but instead of an IDE (ribbon) cable you have SATA cables.

You can get SATA/IDE converters.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...FIDE+converter