IDE > SATA Issue..

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nintenjo

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I have recently replaced my noisey SATA drive in my HTPC for a nice quiet smaller 2.5 inch PATA drive i had spare. Ive used a IDE to SATA adapter i got off the internet.. but having a problem installing win 7 on it..

The drive is detected correctly in my bios but when Win7 Installer boots it says i have no drive installed.. so cant continue. If i change my bios SATA settings from Native IDE to AHCI Win7 installer now detects the drive and will install.. however on first boot after install it crashes on PNPCLASS.sys (looking at a lot of forums the solution is to use Native IDE not AHCI.. ) So im in a pickle as to how i should proceed..

Any suggestions?
 
I was also dealing with IDE-SATA adapter today- trying to reinstall WinXP on my parents PC. I could not get the adapter to work until i switched the IDE drives (HD and DVD-RW) to master. Some sites suggested it should be slave, cable select - but for me it only worked when switched to master.
 
I've tried one of the cheap PATA-SATA adaptors but like you ran into various problems. You could always get a cheap PCI card with a PATA interface on it.
 
bledd. said:
Best thing I ever did with my HTPC was fit a cheap 30GB SSD
Click to expand...

That was my next option... was actually going to take a trip toe OCUK to pick up an OCZ SSD.. but instead ive reverted back to my old SATA drive.. bit noisey but isnt too bad.
 
Well, I;ve still not finished with my parents PC - I cant make the clone copy of the boot partition to boot on the IDE drive, but the adapter works perfect and shows all partitions in windows. The adepter was £1 one from auction site.
 
Never managed for to make IDE>SATA converted drive to be bootable, gave up in the end. Works perfect as a data drive, but Windows just would not boot from it.
 
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