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Is there a difference between IDE and ATA?
In my old Dell computer I had a 80 GB hard drive that has an "Ultra ATA" logo on it. Manufactured by Seagate. I bought a used MicronPC computer, and it has (I'm guessing) an IDE hard drive on it, nothing on its label indicates that though, only the BIOS appears to say it's an IDE device. It's IDE hard drive was only 10 GB, and my Dell's cooling fan died and so I'm switching hard drives, I put in the new 80 GB, the ports matched just fine, and it turned on, and it's currently formatting the drive properly. It recognizes the drive space: 76413 MB it says for the Unpartitioned Space. But is there a big difference between IDE and ATA drives/their ports/their formatting/etc?
No.
In common PC terms they both refer to the same thing.
IDE is just a more commonly used name for ATA.
Philip T
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