Sep 06, 2007 i have a motherboard with 1 hard drive installed at sata1. This answer will focus on current sata drives, which are usually hotswappable or hot plugable. Can i connect a sata hard disk to esata port without an. This article will tell you how to take out a hard disk from a computer properly and connect it to a laptop or another pc, and how to recover data from such disk. We tried connecting the ide hdd as an external drive but the dell would only recognize the. Ide drives also known as pata, or parallel ata, and sata serial ata drives. Is there any way that i can connect my old ide hard drive to my current computer and use it.
Connecting old pata hdd or ide optical drives to your new sata motherboard. For under twenty dollars, you can purchase an ide to sata adapter to convert an ide connection to a sata connection to connect to the motherboard. My current computer is a dell dimension c521 desktop. I have a motherboard with 1 hard drive installed at sata1. If you have an ide drive, whether it is a hard drive or cddvd drive, and your motherboard has a sata connection, you can still connect the ide drive to the motherboard. I did with a clean install was after installing firefox on the new install. Its a mini itx chassis and the board only has 2 sata ports one x16 slot that has a videocard in it. Since you said both drives are sata, ignore all previous advise on jumpers, c drive, and ide cables. Sata connecting multiple drives pc hardware hard drive. The adapter is equipped with a switch and a jumper to select which mode to use described above. Are there any adapters available to connect a sata ii hd to a pata motherboard or what would be the most economically feasible way of connecting. If you have laptop hard drive and need to connect it to a desktop pc, you can get drive bays designed for laptop hard drives that will allow you to safely connect the laptops hard drive to another desktop. This particle hard drive use is the western digital caviar black which is great. Access cmos to make pc recognize hard drive but pc cannot see drive.
When it comes to building a pc, connecting ide integrated drive electronics and sata serial advanced technology attachment cables to storage drives is perhaps one of the easiest steps. In general, a hard drive performs more slowly in ide mode. Always inspect the motherboard and hard disk connections for bent or misaligned pins. Installing sata2 or sata3 hdd on older motherboards. How to connect a desktop hard drive to a laptop or another. How to connect your ide pata hdd, cddvd drive to sata. The new hard drive wont boot or be recognized by the bios. At a guess, your dvd drive is ide and all your motherboard has is sata connections. You can find this adapter in retail and online stores, including best buy. Plug in the new sata drive only then turn on, go to cmos and confirm the drive is found if it has been, then there may be a conflict with the new sata harddrive and the old ata dvd drive. Use the smaller sata data cable to connect the optical drive to the motherboard.
It is backwardcompatible with ata and atapi devices, and offers a thin, small cable solution, as seen in the sata. Dec 18, 2007 since you said both drives are sata, ignore all previous advise on jumpers, c drive, and ide cables. Note the drive not installed from its bay, definitely you need to. Does it matter which sata port i use on the motherboard. Ps2 mouse use the upper ps2 port to connect a ps2 pointing device. C drive connected to motherboard sata connector 3 instead of. New sata hdd does not read in bios or windows techspot. Share with your friends and add to your favorites it helps the channel grow. Feb 22, 2017 the other answers and some of the comments should suffice. Sata explanation ports, cables, controllers, motherboards what.
Sata drive article about sata drive by the free dictionary. To start off i would like to say that i have an asus rampage iii extreme motherboard. Another alternative would be to put the largest ide hd in an external. There is no need for a master or slave distinction with sata drives because they each connect to the motherboard with their own sata cable. I just bought a 500gb hard drive for my computer and i have all the specifications i need except a way to connect it to my computer as i thought i supported sata ii but it turns out i have pata connections and possibly sata. As far as i know, the motherboard should recognize this without any tweaking no matter what port you plug it into although you wont get. Set your frequently used options as your favorites and use the key to quickly. Aug 20, 2009 sata drive connection location on motherboard my dells manual says that recommended configutation. New sata hdd does not read in bios or windows techspot forums. If nothing else has been damaged, then test the optical drive outside the system and then replace that adapter with a good quality one.
Installing a sata hard drive installing a sata hard drive about sata connectors your motherboard features six sata connectors supporting a total of six drives. Is there any steps that i have to follow to do this installation. The second pcs motherboard is burnt and now i want to add the hd ide of this as secondary to the one that is working so that i can recover and use my data. Also, when i power on the computer, i could not feel hard drive spinning. During startup, it only displays reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press any key.
So i got a ide 2 sata convrtr for my rom but its not detecting my dvd rom. Are you saying you have a 6 gbs sata iii hard drive that is one tetrabyte in size. Sata hard drive connected with ide motherboard internal. Sata explanation ports, cables, controllers, motherboards what you need to know ncix tech tips duration. Sata is an acronym for serial advanced technology attachment, often shortened to serial ata. Usb and external sata use the same connector in all generations, while firewire drives may need. Apr 23, 2015 sata hard drive connected with ide motherboard posted in internal hardware. Hello, i have only 1 ide port and 4 sata ports on my motherboard and have connected 2 ide hardisks to the ide port. Cant connect ide hard drive to sata motherboard page 3. External hard drives can connect to the motherboard through the external sata, universal serial bus, and firewire standards. Ide mode provides better compatibility with some older hardware.
How to install another hard drive into desktop youtube. Jul 22, 2008 ive never had a new sata drive detected by bios or the os. Connecting ide hard drive to sata socket on motherboard. This article will tell you how to take out a hard disk from a computer properly and connect it to a. Try the hard drive by itself dvd drive unplugged from sata port and power, ditto the other way hd unplugged. New motherboard, sata drives not recognized internal.
There are very few motherboards with ide connectors these days. For most scenarios you would want to flash it to it mode which makes it a passthrough device which is basically just like adding sassata ports to your motherboard. Sata hard drives can help you extend the life of your old computer. Attach the sata power cable to the sata hard drive and connect the other end to the power supply. Jan 23, 2010 i purchased a samsung dvd sata drive and started to install it.
In disk management it is shown as disk 1 unknown, unreadable. Connect the sata interface cable to the sata to ide marked port in the device. Upgrading from sata to sas will be as simple as replacing the disk drives. How to install a sata hard drive to an old motherboard. As a result of indirect connection using cables, this might result in high latency which can affect the maximum potential of the ssd. Connects to the hard drive activity led on the chassis front panel. Can anybody tell me the step by step procedure to connect these two hard disk in the motherboard of my computer. They are all thinking ide, not sata sorry each sata controller is only able to handle 1 hard drive unlike the older ide that did two devices per connector.
Is there any adapter or connector available to connect a sas drive to a pc having motherboard which supports only sata drives. System builders can now leverage the universal sas sata connection to deploy common backplanes and common connector and cabling devices. I have an old computer, one which i had not used for two. As mentioned, you just need a sata to esata cable because the connectors are different and some way to power the drive. A hard drive in ide mode has the least available features. I have sorted out the problem some time ago so the mbr was migrated to the same drive as the c drive.
How to install a sata hard drive to an old motherboard with. If you are installing a single sata hard drive, it is best to use the lowest numbered port on the motherboard sata0 or sata1. Internal may be dependant on the motherboard, the ohysical drive, and other features. Im connecting a seagate sata 500g drive to an msi k7n2gml motherboard.
Can i install an ide hard disk drive on sata motherboard for. Similarly to the internal versions, the hard drives will work with the computer as long as it supports the connection type. I think this is the one and later will ask you to load the driver from the floppy that came with your motherboard or with your hard drive. Ive never had a new sata drive detected by bios or the os. Hp and compaq desktop pcs about sata hard drives and. Am having problem transfering my firefox bookmarks from a salvaged w7 hard drive to my new windows 10. I have found that there is a jumper in the old 80 gb hd, however no jumper is supplied with the new 250 gb hd. Jun 21, 2014 a sata drive dvd or hdd to an ide motherboard on a pc. After several failed attempts at booting win7 i realized that the computer wasnt seeing my hdds. Installing a newer sata 3 or sata 2 hard disk in a little bit older motherboards requires the data transfer rates to be matched on both the hard disk and the motherboard. If you want to install only one hard drive and do not wish to use the advanced sata ahci features such as hot swapping and native command queuing, select ide. Sas and sata compatibility offers a number of benefits to system builder integrators and end users. C drive connected to motherboard sata connector 3 instead.
May 20, 2016 this video shows how to connect sata hard drive to your motherboard, basically one of the easiest job for pc assembly or upgrades. May 30, 2010 so i have a kingston ssd which is going be my os and a 1 tb that is going to be storage. Suppose you have a pata hdd with ide interface, then connect the ide interface female to your hdds male interface. Dec 17, 2007 i purchased a dell inspiron 531s desktop and wanted to move my ide 200 mb hdd from mo old pc to the dell. Accessing those latches later to disconnect at motherboard level will be a challenge. Sata hard drive connected with ide motherboard posted in internal hardware. How to connect sata hard disk to laptop techrepublic. Where is the sata connector located on the motherboard. On initial install of w7 i had a problem where the mbr was installed on my internal n drive connected to motherboard sata connector 0 instead of on same drive as os. Serial refers to the fact that data is sent one bit at a time down a single connection in each direction. We have a dell server with a single sata hard drive. I am doing this right now with a bare drive connected to a laptop, so it definitely works.
I have an old computer, one which i had not used for two years. I took a photograph of the connections before i removed the broken dvdcd drive and it appears that the data plug for the old drive was plugged into the internal spdif component on the motherboard. Are sata 3 drives backwards compatible with sata 2. After first switching on, it doesnt boot, but when i turn off and back on again, it usually boots. I purchased a samsung dvd sata drive and started to install it. Thank you for purchasing the msi mpg x570a pro motherboard. If your pc has two sata drives installed and running. Installing a newer sata3 or sata2 hard disk in a little bit older motherboards requires the data transfer rates to be matched on both the hard disk and the motherboard. Nov 22, 2010 there is not any inherant incompatability subject, yet sata isnt in uncomplicated terms a buzzword or a velocity score, it is an entire seperate cable and motherboard connection. Use the sata port on the motherboard directly after your last hard drive. You can connect either end of the sata cable to the sata hard drive or the connector on the motherboard. I put an ssd drive in it for the os and the extra sata port would be for holding media. As far as i can tell i have at least 1 sata port on the motherboard available but i. May 29, 2017 sata iii ssds are usually available in a 2.
Dec 31, 2017 the instructions below will explain how to install a serial ata hard drive to an old motherboard with only ide hard drive port. Is the sata cable to connect the sata hdd to the motherboard proprietary or can any sata cable be used. Connect the power supplied to the standard 4 pin supplied. Connecting io devices connecting io devices the backplane of the motherboard has the following io ports. Sata ii hard drive to pata motherboard yahoo answers. Pata drives have wide, flat cables or thick cables as wide as your finger, while sata drives have thin cables about the diameter of a pencil. System builders can now leverage the universal sassata connection to deploy common backplanes and common connector and cabling devices. I would like to ask for some help regarding a problem i have recently encountered on my computer. How to connect ssd or hard drive to your pc motherboard. Motherboard ide to sata hd converter for xp boot harddisk. How should i plug in the sata cables to the motherboard.
Adding a new hard drive to your existing system is an easy way to store more data on your. But i managed to get my older maxtor sata to boot with my other sata. Find out what type of cable system is used to connect drives to the motherboard. I need to transfer some data from sas drive to a server which supports only sata. Theres only one correct way to insert ide and sata cables into motherboards and drives, and as long as you use the proper cable for your motherboard, there. Sata xdock allows connecting the sata drive externally by simply placing sata drives in dock, just like you would an ipod in an ipod dock. Connecting 2 ide hard drives to a single ide port should work fine.
The matter is that depending on the interface through which your disk is connected ide or sata different boxes will be. How to connect ssd or hard drive to your pc motherboard zoran sorgic. The other answers and some of the comments should suffice. However, when i opened the case it only has two sata connections on the motherboard and each cable only has a single connection on it. Im not sure if my motherboard has a spot to connect my old ide hard drive to it. Sata drive to ide motherboard motherboard forum ccm. Ive never had any problems playing movies off a usb drive so i figured its my only solution. The bandwidth throughput, which is supported by the interface, is up to 150mbs. External sata connector against a white background.
Sata drive connection location on motherboard microsoft. Finding out which sata modes your computers motherboard supports before purchasing a new drive can be beneficial in a number of ways. Page 23 to install the serial ata sata hard drives, use the sata cable that supports the serial ata protocol. How to connect two sata hard disks in a motherboard. As far as i can tell i have at least 1 sata port on the motherboard available but i do read more. You should have a second sata connector in your computer.
With the pc off, unplug the ide hard drives, plug in your sata with the adapter to ide if necessary to primary ide. Can i install an ide hard disk drive on sata motherboard. I want to use my old slave drive western digital wd1600 250gb as a slave drive so i bought the sata motherboard to ide data connector and the power connector. Two idepata drives, on the other hand, could share the. Bridged drives have a sata connector, may include either or both kinds of power. This video shows how to connect sata hard drive to your motherboard, basically one of the easiest job for pc assembly or upgrades. The bios does not detect or recognize the ata sata hard drive. You can do this using a simple micro jumper on the hard disk. Problem connecting ide 2 sata convrtr hardware forum ccm.
Newer motherboards with pata question anandtech forums. I have an old ide hard drive that i need to retrieve my old files from. So i have a kingston ssd which is going be my os and a 1 tb that is going to be storage. Power on the other pc, booting its standard operating system from its main hard drive, and copy the files from your old computers hard. For example, if your hard drive is in sata1 on the motherboard, install the optical drive into sata2. I then connected a 420mb connor hard drive to my usb 2.
Jul 26, 2012 on initial install of w7 i had a problem where the mbr was installed on my internal n drive connected to motherboard sata connector 0 instead of on same drive as os. Ide hard drives are smaller in memory size, more expensive and slower at transferring files. The instructions below will explain how to install a serial ata hard drive to an old motherboard with only ide hard drive port. Can i connect my ide hard drive to sata motherboard. How to connect an ide drive to sata motherboard youtube.
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