Well, nothing ever goes as planned. I hit a bit of a snag while getting ready to rebuild the old PC. I went out and bought a new SATA hard drive, and an enclosure to house the old drive. I knew the machine had a SATA hard drive because I looked up its specs on the manufacturer's support site.
That was my first mistake.
After opening up the machine, it became immediately clear that the hard drive was an IDE drive, not a SATA at all. Worse still, the mother board didn't have SATA support at all. Time for Plan B.
Fortunately, the enclosure I bought was IDE/SATA configurable, so I removed the old hard drive and put it in the enclosure. Then I decided to bite the bullet and move all my audio hardware out of the old machine and into a newer box I've been using for video editing. So out came the sound card and its drive-bay interface unit, and the PCI wireless card. These went into the newer machine, and I plugged the old drive into a USB port.
Several reboots for installing drivers and updates later, and Bob's your uncle! Everything works, and I can now install my audio editing software(s) on the newer machine.
On a (somewhat) related note, I also scored some very inexpensive gear at a yard sale over the weekend. Five bucks each for a new PCI-E video card, a gigabit Ethernet switch, and a Wi-Fi access point. If you don't haunt yard sales, you're probably missing some great deals. Besides, I have a fun time driving around with my wife on Saturday mornings, even if we don't find any deals.
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