I bought a SATA 160GB hard drive, and have a IDE motherboard, i bought the adapter that plugs into the IDE pins on the motherboard, and my computer wont read it when i connect it. I think i need the adapter that plugs into my SATA hard drive making it a IDE. NOT the adapter that plugs into my motherboard........any suggestions/help?
2007-03-10 14:22:03 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
You will need add a SATA controller to your motherboard, they are PCI cards with SATA connectors on them.
IDE to SATA converters only convert IDE signals to SATA not vice versa.
2007-03-10 15:16:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might try a pci adapter. your motherboard should have a few pci slots, if you have one available/empty then you could use the adapter to add sata slots on an add-on card.
Or, you could use an external hard drive case. a bit more expensive, but it would be portable and could connect using USB 2.0 or firewire, depending on the case model. the case is basically an empty shell with a board in it that you connect to the hard drive, then screw it shut and your good to go.
if the drive is to be your main drive (with windows install) then i highly suggest that you pay for another ide drive. but for just adding more storage space, those two should do you fine :)
2007-03-10 14:42:45 · answer #2 · answered by pezzilla101 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SATA would not have "slaves". the traditional/secondary grasp/slave device are residences of IDE, no longer of sata. yet sure, you may connect your IDE difficult-force to a SATA connection, yet you may could desire to get an IDE to SATA Converter i will additionally element out, there is not any benefit to such conversions, except you in basic terms have not got an room for an IDE cable, or a scarcity of such cables.
2016-10-01 22:16:53 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋