IDE to SATA

Nedb37

Nedb37

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Hi,

I have an old Maxtor 80gb Diamondmax IDE drive that I pulled from my old Dell and I'm wanting to transfer the contents to my new PC.

I ordered one of these:

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...cheap as chips things and it's not working. Unless I'm using it wrong? Have connected the board and HDD to molex, with the SATA cable running to MoBo.

Nothing is working.

Does anyone have any experience with these things? I don't want to spend a fortune on anything as all I want to do is check the drive and move anything I want to keep over, before throwing the HDD.

HDD is heating up so power must be getting through, converter board lights up when power applied so assume power getting through, have tried two SATA cables and nothing doing.
 
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Is it spinning up? Might be dead. Assuming you bought a converter board? those things can be a bit finicky and you may need to set your disk jumpers to slave/master to get it going. Would suggest a USB Dick with SATA and IDE connectors to keep around, very handy, the ones that aren't permanent enclosures, just slot in.
 
If you have bought one of those converters that allow you to connect a PATA drive to a SATA port (SATA is still IDE) then make sure that your BIOS is set to IDE mode and not AHCI as that would stop it being detected IIRC. NB: If your O/S drive on your computer was installed in AHCI mode it may not boot in IDE mode.
 
Thanks for the suggestions guys, much appreciated.

My worry is that the drive is dead, as powering up my old Dell often led to crunching noises but, I've brought the drive into work and we're going to try it in an old machine we still have here.

Fingers crossed!!
 
It's not one of those cheap IDE>SATA devices from eBay is it? Made in China? Little pcb with a couple of sockets?

They're crap. Complete rubbish. Half of them don't work and the other half stop working after a while.
 
Blackjack Davy said:
It's not one of those cheap IDE>SATA devices from eBay is it? Made in China? Little pcb with a couple of sockets?

They're crap. Complete rubbish. Half of them don't work and the other half stop working after a while.
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That's exactly what it is, yes! Little red thing that lights up and that's about it. For the price (£3), I'm not entirely shocked but all I wanted was something that worked while I transferred over files.
 
Half the time these pieces of crap don't work, or effectively blow up

Pay more or use an older system with IDE and SATA to get the info off, or try your luck and keep getting replacements till you get a working one :)
 
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