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ide to sata adapter
hi i have just purchases a sata 500g hd my motherboard does not have a sata connection so i purchased a NewLink SATA to IDE Adapter. the problem i have is that there is no manual. i have plugged the ide side into my secondry ide slot on the motherboard and powered up. that sata drive is working but windows xp home does not see it what am i doing wrong |
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Is the IDE hard drive seen in the BIOS? The BIOS must be properly configured to see that drive. What makes you say that "Windows XP Home does not see it"? Are you talking about the Windows CD or is this a secondary hard drive? You are using a IDE Ribbon to connect the drive, so start out with nothing else on that ribbon and assure you are using the end of the ribbon to plug into the adapter. There is usually a 4 pin floppy power plug on the adapter, assure that has power plugged into it. If the drive is seen in the BIOS and not in "my computer" within Windows XP, then go to control panel - Administrative tools - disk management and assure the drive is seen in there, initialized and assigned a drive letter. ahhhh, I will take a breath now.... good luck! |
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trebor452 wrote:
hi i have just purchases a sata 500g hd my motherboard does not have a sata connection so i purchased a NewLink SATA to IDE Adapter. the problem i have is that there is no manual. i have plugged the ide side into my secondry ide slot on the motherboard and powered up. that sata drive is working but windows xp home does not see it what am i doing wrong Are you sure you bought an IDE(controller) to SATA(disk) adapter? Most are IDE(disk) to SATA(controller) and will not work in the other direction. Arno |
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ide to sata adapter
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 09:35:21 -0500, trebor452
wrote: hi i have just purchases a sata 500g hd my motherboard does not have a sata connection so i purchased a NewLink SATA to IDE Adapter. the problem i have is that there is no manual. i have plugged the ide side into my secondry ide slot on the motherboard and powered up. that sata drive is working but windows xp home does not see it what am i doing wrong Newlink seems to make two adapters: SATA IDE adaptor (NL-SATAADAPT) http://www.newlinkproducts.co.uk/prodinfo.asp?catID=6&prodID=232 that converts an IDE drive so that it can plug into an SATA connector on the motherboard. Bi-Directional SATA - IDE Adapter (NL-SATADUALADAPT) http://www.newlinkproducts.co.uk/prodinfo.asp?catID=6&prodID=288 that looks like it can work both ways. |
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ide to sata adapter
"trebor452" wrote in message ... hi i have just purchases a sata 500g hd my motherboard does not have a sata connection so i purchased a NewLink SATA to IDE Adapter. the problem i have is that there is no manual. i have plugged the ide side into my secondry ide slot on the motherboard and powered up. that sata drive is working but windows xp home does not see it what am i doing wrong It's a new disk - Right click "My computer" - Manage - Disk Management Now do you see it? |
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