ide to sata converter

[zogas]

hi all i recently built up a pc for my uncle at first the mobo was faulty so got that all sorted out.but now he wants to make his one ide 250gb hdd into his main windows drive so i went and got a converter from a local pc shop

heres the link:
http://www.thepcshop.co.za/showproduct.php?prodid=4727


but the pc doesnt pick up the drive at all then converter board light comes o tho

so i think its prob the board and the converter not mixing well,has anyone used a converter on a sandybridge boardbefore??

set up

intel i5 2320
msi h61-p35
8gb ram

thanks in advanced

 

[justjaxx]

Assuming that the HDD is IDE, did you connect power to both the HDD and the IDE/SATA adapter separately ?
Both devices will require separate power.

 

[kilobits]

Hey Hey

I had an Isonic adapter like the one in that link of yours, and it could not be used as an OS boot a drive, it only would not be seen by the BIOS if used as a boot device. Once in Windows it worked OK... but loaded a standard OS driver.

If you are trying to boot the operating system off it, as with mine, you are probably out of luck and will need a PCI / PCI-E card with IDE connector and controller that is OS bootable.

 

[Pada]

I won't recommend using an old IDE drive as your main drive, even though Windows only uses like 20GB or so.

The old IDE drives are incredibly slow compared to the modern 1 - 4TB SATA drives. You'll really make your whole brand new Sandy Bridge PC run slow by doing that!

 

[zogas]

I won't recommend using an old IDE drive as your main drive, even though Windows only uses like 20GB or so.

The old IDE drives are incredibly slow compared to the modern 1 - 4TB SATA drives. You'll really make your whole brand new Sandy Bridge PC run slow by doing that!

yeah so i told them but its fine using a sata drive now all sorted thanks for the reply guys