IDE HDD not recognised through SATA

[Beech6]

I have bought a convertor card with cabling so my slave IDE 80gb Hard Drive will fit into one of the SATA ports on my new M/B. The only IDE port is currently taking both my main Hard drive (250gb) and a DVD/RW.

BIOS allows me to play around with various configurations for SATA/IDE, but whatever I choose, Windows XP does not recognise thethe 80gb drive.

Not sure what else to try. I loaded all the drivers off the m/b disc.

System:
E6600 Intel processor
Gigabyte 945PL-S3 m/b (4 SATA, 1 IDE ports)
1gb RAM
250gb, 80gb hard drives (IDE)
DVD/RW (IDE)

Any help appreciated. Thanks

 

[Freestone]

Did the converter card come with any drivers? What is the make and model of the card?

 

[kjv1611]

Are you sure you have the power connected correctly. I have one of those IDE Hard Drive to SATA motherboard adapters, and if I remember correctly, you power the adapter with a floppy power connector, and then also use the standard IDE power connector for the hard drive's power. But I could be remembering incorrectly. You need to find out for sure how you are supposed to power it, as you don't want to power it incorrectly.

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

 

[mainegeek]

Beech6,
How is the 80gig IDE jumpered? Is the SATA controller enabled in the bios?

 

[wahnula]

In XP, is the newly-added SATA drive visible n Disk Management? Right-click My Computer, Manage, Disk Management and see if the HDD appears there as "Unallocated". Simply right-click the new disk and partition and format...no need to convert to dynamic. Best of luck.

Tony