Your old drive was realy an IDE/ATA drive, also named PATA for Parallel ATA.
Get any IDE/ATA or IDE/PATA drive no smaller than 300 Gb. You may get up to 3 of those installed along with the CD or DVD unit.
Don't forget to detect them in the BIOS as you boot after installing them.
If you have more than one unit on a cable, set both to "Cable sellect".
You'll also need to format them and install your OS on any one of the drives if you have more than one.
So, as long as you don't get a SATA drive, you are OK. Those have a 4 pins power connector, a small squarish data connector and NO jumpers.
Electro
October 2012
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