HWMBO’s hard disk packed up last week. Very sad, really, but the computer and harddisk are about 7 years old so it was time. Most of it has been saved, so losses were minimal.
But, we probably couldn’t afford a new computer for him, so what to do? I had several relatively new SATA disks, but no SATA DVD-RW drive. The old computer has a SATA controller on it, but it won’t handle SATA and IDE drives at the same time.
The solution was to get a SATA DVD-RW drive (they are really cheap now, around