ide sata converter problem

pigeon boy · 15 May 2012 at 15:12

hi
i need help again, ive been trying to get my old ide hard drive running on my pc, it was working when it came out and when a molex connector is connected it spins up so i bought a ide to sata converter off ebay

the first 1 didnt work at all so they sent me another and this one lights up the hard drive spins up but its still not showing up in my bios, all the wires are connected properly and the advert states no drivers needed
can you help ?

T345 · 15 May 2012 at 16:24

They don't work, and please could you remove the link please

I have one my self, they just don't work

pigeon boy · 15 May 2012 at 17:38

hi i have removed the link ????? i only put it up so someone could help me, so none of these work then as on the feedback from the seller there was a few in the last week saying that they work fine ??

and if you are qualified can i send the seller your information to back up my statement that they dont work, so that i can get a refund and then report him to ebay for selling dodgy stuff

Duke · 15 May 2012 at 18:01

I've had to use one before and it worked fine. It won't necessarily show in the BIOS, it depends on the motherboard. Does the drive show up in device manager/disk management?

pigeon boy · 15 May 2012 at 18:34

i never got that far i was trying to boot it up as a single hard drive, but after putting the windows disk in it was not showing any hard drives to install it to

pigeon boy · 15 May 2012 at 18:48

right just checked now and its not showing up at all in diskmgmt

T345 · 15 May 2012 at 19:43

For me I returned one and recieved a replacement, it also did not work. I'm not sure about other people. It may be a different seller for all I know

pigeon boy · 17 May 2012 at 11:33

T345 said:
They don't work, and please could you remove the link please
I have one my self, they just don't work

just to let you know they do work, many hours of surfing the net and trial and error it is now going and working well
thankyou

Orcvader · 17 May 2012 at 12:10

It's all just luck. With some configurations, they do work. Some work initally, but then doesn't after a while. Then for others, they don't work at all.

pigeon boy · 17 May 2012 at 14:02

well with mine it was to do wth the jumpers on the ide hard drive ive now got 2 of them running 1 as data and 1 with os on and all seems fine at the mo

bledd · 17 May 2012 at 14:19

They're a bit hit and miss.

Typically, they need to be set to Master. Personally, I'd cut losses and buy a new optical drive. I went for an external one since I rarely use them now. More handy to have a USB one lying around for me

Essexraptor · 17 May 2012 at 23:50

pigeon boy said:
well with mine it was to do wth the jumpers on the ide hard drive ive now got 2 of them running 1 as data and 1 with os on and all seems fine at the mo

Glad you got it working and shared with us how you managed it

wonko · 18 May 2012 at 09:10

Orcvader said:
It's all just luck. With some configurations, they do work. Some work initally, but then doesn't after a while. Then for others, they don't work at all.

This pretty much sums it up from my experience and from what I've read of others' problems.

In my case, I got one working and it seemed ok in a new-build home server. I was getting a repeating interrupt issue that paused all i/o for a few seconds, and spent ages tracking the cause down to the stupid converter. For some reason it's still in my bits box instead of the bin.