SATA and IDE Hard Drives? - Comments Page 2

Where would I find an adapter card to hook up a sata hard drive to a computer with only ata hard drive connection.

EDITOR'S NOTE: You'll need an IDE-to-SATA adapter. Do a Google search and you'll find them starting at about $20. The adapter plugs into the IDE slot on the motherboard, then you plug the SATA drive into the adapter -- not very difficult to install if you're willing to pop the hood on your PC.

SATA to IDE (and IDE to SATA). From Ebay you can get a little card that plugs into the back of an IDE/SATA drive and converts one to the other. Ie you can run a sata from an IDE only M/B and the other way round. they are cheap, under 10 UK pounds from a source in Hong Kong.

Then there is the magic bridge. cheap plastic box, USB2 to connect to PC/laptop, Mains power adaptor and connections for IDE40/80/44 and SATA drives. Great for data recovery too. Cost 20 to 40 UK pounds. All IDE drives have to be jumpered as master.

Hi Bob i have two hard disk in my computer old one is ide and second one is sata when i connect both hard disk it boot from ide i want it boot from sata hard disk can you provide me solution for it.

EDITOR'S NOTE: I think you need to go into your BIOS settings and specify the boot order.

I just bought a new HP that has only SATA connectors. I wanted to take the secondary IDE drive from my old XP PC and add it to the new PC. I bought a converter card that plugs into the back of the IDE drive that then provides a SATA cable to plug into the motherboard. I've installed the card and power cables, plugged in the SATA cable to the MB, but the drive is not being recognized by either the BIOS or Vista. I've put the Master jumper on the IDE drive. I've tried changing the SATA1 Controller Mode from RAID to IDE, but that doesn't help. Any suggestions?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Sounds like you did everything right. If you can rule out a defective IDE-SATA converter, then your best best is to use the IDE drive as an external drive, with a USB connection.

I'd like to mirror Larry's comments re: the lack of jumpers specifying the order and merge with it the comment from Sanjay.

I too have IDE and SATA drives and when you say to go into the BIOS and specify the boot order, there is no boot order, merely the number of hard drives. Certainly clicking each one reveals their name or ref number, but nowhere can you specify which should be the master.

Bob, I am trying to reformat a Samsung SP0802N/P PATA HDD out of the unit by utilizing a seet of Ultra USB 2.0 IDE/SATA cable adapter. I have an 80G drive and a 320G D: drive installed in a Upgraded Dell 8200. The computer reccognizes the USB connection in the tool bar but not when I pull up "My Computer". The hdd in infected with a boat load of viruses + which caused the original prob. Cannot reformat from XP windows shuts down upon logon. Any suggestiuons? in addition to buy a new HD

EDITOR'S NOTE: What toolbar are you referring to? Did you try accessing the drive from Disk Management?

Hi Bob, I've recently brought a second standard computer to try and make good myself, The computer has got a standard ide hd and i want to add a sata hd. Could i add it straight to the ide hd as a secondary drive or would it be better removing the old drive and just install the sata drive. Thanks for you're time.

EDITOR'S NOTE: If your motherboard has connections for both IDE and SATA, you can use both.

The computer has only got ide connections, ive brought a adapter so i can use the sata but was wondering if i could just add it straight to the ide hd.

EDITROR'S NOTE: You can't plug a SATA drive into an IDE drive, if that's what you mean. The SATA adapter must be plugged into the second IDE connector on the motherboard.

Thanks for you're help, very quick responses as well.

Much appreciated.

how can i change SATA drive to IDE in dell optiplex755

ryan is wrong, you don't have to plug the drive into the second ide port on the MB. Just plug it into the slave connector on the same ide cable. (the middle connector)

Hi! Bob, I wanna know whcih hard disk is better SATA or IDE?

EDITOR'S NOTE: In general SATA is faster and more flexible. Most new computers are using SATA drives now.

I had an IDE drive as the primary via the MB and added a SATA as a secondary via a SATA. The primary holds a fresh XP install. Since adding the SATA, I have extremely HIGH hardware interrupts. There are no conflicts listed. I have tried updating all drivers and the problem still exists. The primary stays on PIO mode, even after manually changing and rebooting. The SATA is DMA. This is so annoying, I cant listen to music without hearing what almost sounds like harmonics. I cant watch videos, such as on YouTube, without major hesitations in the video every few seconds. Help.............

i have a new computer its installed already sata hard drive but now i have another one ide hard drive i want to use to this one but one ide port in my motherboard there is connected dvd drive so how can i use it but 4 sata port is there.

I added an old 320 GB IDE Hard drive to my new computer but I cant get it to show up in My Computer. Any advice please???? Thanks.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Is the drive formatted? Try to find it with Disk Management. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000

hi Bob

I have a new motherboard with one ide connector and I wish to connect 4 ide devices. I have bought a pata to sata converter, but when I connect it, the drives are still not detected. Do you have to do anything in the Bios?

EDITOR'S NOTE: If you want to connect IDE devices, why get a SATA interface? Usually you can use 2 drives per IDE port, by chaining them together on the ribbon cable. So you really just need an extra IDE port, which you can do with an add-on card.

Hello Bob! I just got a new Dell laptop model: N5040. I know that the file system is NTFS. So my old laptop which was a Sony Vaio VGN-NR140E(which I believes has an FAT32 file system), I took the hard drive out of it. I hooked up the Sony old hard drive via an Sabrent USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE Hard Drive Adapter, to my new Dell. The Dell seems to not identify the drive. Like when I go to "my computer" it just loads and loads and never opens. Now I do notice that on my SATA/IDE adapter that the lights are blue as if the old sony hard drive is trying to release some kind of information to the Dell. Should I wait a while and allow the Sony hard drive information to be transferred to the Dell? The Sony hard drive has about 100gb of information on it.

EDITOR'S NOTE: I don't think waiting will help. The drive should be recognized right away when you plug it in the USB port. And it won't automatically transfer any files, even if the drive is recognized. It will appear as a new drive letter (E:, F:, etc.) I would try connecting the drive to another computer's USB port. If that doesn't work, I would guess that the Sabrent adapter is defective.

Hi, bob, im using HP computer wenever i switch ON the computer the monitor will pop a message that: " NO SIGNAL" pls. I need help. Thanks