How can I connect 3 ide devices (CD, DVD, and Hard Drive) and 1 SATA Hard Drive? Motherboard has 2 SATA 1 IDE.

Question

Hi. I have a desktop (HP) with SATA 80 G Hard Drive, (ide) CD/RW, and (ide) DVD/RW. The motherboard has an extra SATA port. I have an ide 80 G Hard drive that I want to hook up to it. I got an adapter (IDE to SATA). When I hook it up the PC does not start. It goes to boot set up and does not pass that. I disconnected the CD drive and hooked the ide Hard drive there; and connected the CD drive to the SATA port using the adapter. By doing this the hard drive works but the CD drive does not.
What should I do in order to hook everything up?
Thanks,

Answer 1

my guess is you bought the wrong adapter you have to make sure you buy it for the right direction. an IDE to SATA will not work for what you want to do you need a SATA to IDE adapter to do the trick. and it's probably a lot cheaper than doing the whole external thing.

Answer 2

I have never seen a HD that has an IDE as well as a Sata connection but if it does then I don't see why you shouldn't be able to connect to a PC, be it your PC1 or PC37. Btw, your PC2 only has an IDE connection? Because it should have TWO IDE connections. And when you say it has "nothing else that could be used with a hard drive." then you are wrong because since it has TWO IDE connections then you could connect up to FOUR hard drives to it. Unless I am missing something, in that case... sorry. But when messing with hard drives make sure you understand about the slave vs master configurations via changing pins at the back, apart from that, and the fact that you should always have your pc off with the plug off the socket when doing this then anything else can be done.

Answer 3

I'm not sure if an adapter would just work because IDE is PATA with the P standing for parallel and the S in SATA stands for serial. I believe parallel transmission transfers 8 bits at a time while serial transfers only 1. Therefore, an adapter won't work. Your best bet would be to not install the cd drive since dvd drives play cd also.

Answer 4

It is hard to give you a direct answer with out knowing the Model Number of the HP Machine as well as the manufturer and model of the HD you are installing.
BUT
The easy way out is to buy an externl HD enclosure, install the Hard disk in the enclosure and then hook it to the PC via USB. But if you would like the IDE Hard drive to be in the PC here are some thoughts.

A typical motherbord Has 2 IDE slots. One for optical drives and one for hard disks. Look closely at the motherboard. There will be a Blue IDE connector. That is where the IDE should go for the Hard disk.. The CD and DVD go to the black IDE connector. Leave the original SATA HD alone. If the Motherboard does not have 2 IDE connections then the first setup you had might have worked.

Two things to check when hookingup a new disk to a PC.
1) Jumpers
2) BIOS Settings.
JUMPERS are little pins. Depending on your drive the pin connections vary. But you need to tell the HD if it is going to be a Slave (Secondry Drive) or Master (Boot Drive). Check with the Manufaturer for the Jumper settings for your particular drive.

BIOS (Basic In and Out Settings) of the computer. In this part of the computer you can setup things like the boot drive. To access the BIOS press F2 or the Delete key or esc repedidly. The key changes to access the BIOS depending on the motherboard manufacturer. Names for areas of the BIOS also change from manufaturer to manufaturer. Once in the BIOS there is a legend at the bottom of the screen to help navigate and change settings.

I imagine you would like the drive that came with the PC to be your boot drive (80GB SATA). In the first setup you tried, make sure the jumpers are set correctly and access the BIOS to choose the 80GB HD that came with the PC as the boot drive. (Getting in to the BIOS to change the settings for the boot drive applies to the first part of my responce as well if you have 2 IDE connections).

EXAMPLE
Here are the ares of the BIOS on my PC to change the boot drive. For you PC the BIOS might be different.

Turn off PC if it is on. On startup I press Delete repedidly every 2 to 3 seconds.

then I goto "Standard CMOS features" (This is to make sure the PC recognises the HD I hooked up.

Then I press esc to go back to the main screen

Then I goto "Advnced BIOS fetures"

Choose "first boot device."

choose the original hd that I want to boot the PC.

press esc twice, (press "Y" to save settings and exit) and then the pc willl restart. And the original drive in the PC I built is the boot drive.

I hope this helps. Please let me know if there are any questions. I check posts every morning before I fix clients PC's at Businesses or homes.

Answer 5

The simplest method would be to install a PCI card, IDE controller. You would pick up 2 more IDE controllers, each controlling 2 IDE devices for a total of 4 extra devices. Take a look at this so that you'll know what to look for.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/search.asp?keywords=pci+ide+raid+controller+card&image1.x=7&image1.y=11

Answer 6

even i have faced the same problem with my pc.
there is one method to solve this externally by using a casing device which we can make use to connect the devices externally.Where u will be using USB port to connect.