IDE to SATA adapter PD620 1

[artheim]

I have a SATA drive in a laptop that is flaky - right now I cannot boot it. It has XP Home installed. I got one of those adapters to interface SATA with IDE with the intent of putting the SATA drive as a secondary in another desktop, but the desktop only supports IDE. The adapter came with a 7 pin cable and a 4 pin power cable, yet the power cable does not interface with what I believe to be the power connector on the drive. The drive has 3 connectors - the 4 pin (believe is power), a 7 pin, and then a 15 pin connector. The adapter has a 4 pin connector that the power cable fits on, a 7 pin connector, and an IDE female connector. I assume I can plug the adapter onto the MOBO IDE connector, plug the 4 pin cable to a Molex power connector and the adapter, but then I only have the 7 pin cable to go from the adapter to the SATA drive - I think I am missing something, but do not know what.

 

[Lemon13]

the 15 pin is the power connector.
have a look at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA

 

[wolluf]

Have you tried connecting what you can - I've not used this adapter type, but if the adapter is powered and the drive is connected to it....

I take it it didn't come with instructions!

 

[artheim]

Lemon13 thanks for the reference. Good info there. It looks like I need another cable - that of power from a Molex to the 15 pin SATA connector to power the drive.

wolluf no there were no instructions and I even went to the manufacturer's site and only a picture of the adapter was there with descriptive info as to what it was capable of doing - but no usage info at all and made in China!

I have ordered a power cable, so will wait a few days to try the recovery. Thanks for the feedback.