"AAH" wrote in message
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Will all the utilities at present installed on
IDE hard disk work on new type SATA
hard disk?
Or better to look for the ide type to replace
the present one?

Advice is appreciated.

You may encounter difficulties, AAH, but here's one possible way to get
around it:

http://www.newertech.com/products/usb2_adaptv2.php

Google offers lots of opinions on this situation.
Hope this helps,

Harry.