Hi
I have a Intel 845 chipset mother board.
I use windows XP installed on a 40GB IDE HDD.
I want to add a 320 GB SATA HDD to my machine now.
I bought a SATA to IDE converter. I attached the image of the converter here. Please see it.

I tried connecting the new HDD. But it is not detected.
I am confused if the converter is damaged or if I did not follow the right process.
Please tell me how I have to proceed to get the SATA HDD installed.
Few questions:

1)Should I update the BIOS?
2)Should I install any SATA drivers in my machine...If so where could I get these drivers..I was not able to find them on INTEL website. Please help.

Get yourself a new motherboard. More expensive than a IDE SATA coverter, but any motherboard that does not use SATA is got to be pretty outdated anyway.

Hello
I may be wroug but that is for puting a IDE drive on to a SATA Motherboard


I used a SATA pci Card that will work fine

Hope this will help

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Hi there

this adaptor is fine. I have had to use it in repair on some older system where I do not have access to the BIOS to change the drive from SATA to IDE to install the OS.

This should work for you but you need to put it into the slot on your mother board and get a good connection. Make sure to use the cable for your A drive on this one

Then once it is in of course windows will not see it right away. You have to go to the devie manager and partition and format this drive to make it work and be seen. You can check on it in the BIOS and make sure it sees two IDE drives in there.

But like martcom said it might be easier for you to get the card and put it in your pci slot. This way you are loosing one of your ide slots on your mother board and will have to reconfigure one of your ROM drives as a slave and hook it up with your hard drive. If you run two then you loose one of these. This adaptor needs to be installed directly to the slot on your mother board to work right.

Good luck on this one

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Iorana Haraharaini