Can I add a Ultra ATA-100 Hard Drive

Below are the specification for my daughters Dell 4550 computer courtesy of Belarc Advisor. She is desperately in need of more hard drive space. As you can see she currently has a 30GB Western Digital drive. I looked up the existing drive spec HERE on the drive and it is an EIDE, 7200 RPM.

My challenge is trying to find a drive that I can ADD to her system without having to reload XP. To that end I wanted to purchase an additional drive that will become Drive D.

In looking for a new drive it would appear that EIDE drives are "old school" and I see drives like Ultra ATA-100 and various SCSI drives.

THE QUESTION: Can I put a Ultra ATA-100 drive in her computer as a slave of the existing hard drive?

Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 3 (build 2600)
Dell Computer Corporation Dimension 4550
2.53 gigahertz Intel Pentium 4
8 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache
Board: Dell Computer Corp. 0J0592
Serial Number: ..CN48112339000D.
Bus Clock: 533 megahertz
BIOS: Dell Computer Corporation A05 01/27/2003
Drives Memory Modules c,d
29.96 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
3.63 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-248F [CD-ROM drive]
SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616T [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

WDC WD300BB-75DEA0 [Hard drive] (30.00 GB) -- drive 0, s/n WD-WMAD17646450, rev 05.03E05
SMART Status: Healthy

1024 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'DIMM_A' has 512 MB
Slot 'DIMM_B' has 512 MB
Local Drive Volumes

c: (NTFS on drive 0) 29.96 GB 3.63 GB free

Network Drives None detected

 

Thanks Pete I appreciate you taking a look. I'll order that drive today!

 

I assume you will also order the SATA card as well? However, I believe there is a cable that enables SATA devices to run on IDE ports, though I do not know how well it would work.

 

I apologize, I mis-interpreted your post.