Well, Nutter, if it wasn't for all the hard work and diligence of those like yourself, guys like me would have an IDE HDD just sitting around and going to waste. And thank God for dongles!
All is well
Three days with no hiccups using this drive. Full backward compatibility, and no problems with either Halo 3 or ODST, both of which gave me no end of hell when I played them originally from the DVD using the original (manu ca. 2005) HD. At one point, ODST even bricked my system...
Will require a 44-pin female IDE to 22-pin sata adapter, of course, but other than that it's SOP for this delicate....cheese...procedure.
Just finished updating from an original Hitachi 20 gig to a sweet, sweet 250 GB WD, er, Hitachi, I mean. HDDHACKR was a little cranky backing up my save...