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mark29
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_ 		19. May 2008 @ 10:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I want to connect an old EIDE hard drive (Seagate 130Gb) to a new PC that only has SATA connectors (4). I have bought a converter kit that plugs a small PCB card into the hard drive and uses a SATA cable to connect to the motherboard and a small power lead converter.

The problem is the bios does not see the extra drive? The bios displays six possible drive positions, 0 master and slave, 1 master and slave and 2 master and slave. The original SATA drive appears as 1 Master. The bios describes these as IDEs.

The extra drive was in another box as a slave and so has the jumpers set to slave.

OS is Windows Vista ultimate. Bios is Phoenix.



thanks in advance for any help
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sammorris
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_ 		19. May 2008 @ 11:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
To be honest, your best bet is to use a USB enclosure for the drive, they're not expensive and usually work far better than nasty little adaptors you find off ebay and the like.
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jony218
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_ 		19. May 2008 @ 13:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Do you have both connectors plugged in to to you hard drive? you need to have that small power connector hooked up to the PCB card, and also the regular large plug that hooks up to the back of the hard drive. Both need to be hooked up at the same time.
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mark29
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_ 		21. May 2008 @ 19:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
yes all connectors are connected correctly

i already have loads of externals and seeing as this pc has 4 sata connectors i'd much rather drives were and inside and not have to mess around with external power supplys all the time
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