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Yes, that's exactly what you need
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Posted: 2008-04-03 10:50:57
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ok
thank you man!;)

just curious,why is that other power cable for then?

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Posted: 2008-04-03 13:34:12
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It's to power the actual card itself. The IDE interface is designed for carrying signals only, it doesn't really act as a power delivery system.
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Posted: 2008-04-03 13:37:51
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OK CONNECTED EVERYTHING BUT bios does not recognize my SATA HD.l i cant load windows which is on my IDE HD when the SATA is connected.

anything to do with the Jumper?
i haven't kept any.
should i download any drivers?

thankyou
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Posted: 2008-04-03 17:31:51
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Yes, it could be to do with jumpers They should both be set to 'Master' since they are on different IDE channels and your CD-ROM should be set to 'slave' since it's sharing a channel with a hard drive.
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Posted: 2008-04-03 17:40:31
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and were should i connect the SATA?
i mean there are three slots and one is connected to the Floppy one to DVD ROM and one to the IDE HD.
can the SATA be connected to the floppy one?
thank you

and sry,im really bugging you be with this
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Posted: 2008-04-03 18:20:54
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No problem!

Right, let me get this straight: The picture you showed me suggests that you need to plug the SATA adapter into one of the two Hard drive / CD-ROM IDE ports on your motherboard. Then, you need to connect a spare floppy disk drive power supply plug to the card itself (the small four pin ones).

Next, you need to plug the SATA drive's data cable into any of the adapter's SATA ports. It shouldn't matter which. If the SATA hard drive has jumpers, make sure that it is set to 'Master'.

Then, plug the SATA drive into the power supply using the power cable adapter that we talked about earlier.

Finally, plug your IDE hard drive and CD-ROM into the spare IDE channel and power connectors as you normally would. Make sure that the IDE hard drive is set to 'Master' and the CD-ROM to 'Slave', or vice-versa, it doesn't matter as long as they are not both set to the same.

You will have to look in BIOS to make sure that the first-boot hard drive is the one that has your operating system on. This is presumably the IDE drive in your case.

Good luck!
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Posted: 2008-04-03 18:42:19
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everything is connected.
i put my IDE with jumper on master and the SATA with no jumper(since windows is not loading with jumper on it)
when i loaded windows a ADD NEW HARDWARE popped up with the title hdc,but i have no drivers!?
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Posted: 2008-04-03 20:23:58
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Ok,

What happens if you just click "next"? Can it not automatically find and install the drivers?

Which version of Windows are you using? Windows XP? If so, does it have service pack 2 installed?
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Posted: 2008-04-03 20:44:40
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No it cant find any drivers on the Internet nor automatically.

and there is an "Unkown Device" under "IDEATA/ATAPI controllers" in the device manager.

Im using XP with SP2 and all the Updates.

Thank you
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Posted: 2008-04-04 05:09:42
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