I have an elderly IDE pc which ran Win XP until recently on a 40Gb HDD (it also has a 320Gb IDE D:\). It ran reasonably well and was useful for occasional email/letters/internet use when other computers on our network are occupied.
The 40Gb HDD died the other day. I am now trying to mount a spare 80Gb Hitachi SATA drive from a defunct Acer laptop in its place. This drive reads perfectly satisfactorily when connected to another (SATA) PC.
I have connected the 80Gb HDD to the defunct IDE PC using a Dynamode IDE-SATA-SI adapter, using various configuration, in none of which is it found, though in some I get the message ‘Secondary Slave Drive Incompatible’. The indicator lights on the adapter – red and yellow – light up, but differently depending on which connector I use to connect the SATA data cable. I have set the HDD detection settings to Auto in the BIOS, but the CMOS reports the SATA drive as not installed.
The spare 80Gb SATA drive did have Win7 on it, but I have reformatted it using NTFS formatting. When I did this, the drive letter assigned to it was D:\. (There remains a recover partition on the drive, but I have been unable to find anyway of deleting/reformatting this.) I get the same symptoms when I connect another spare 300Gb SATA drive instead (though this one does not have a recover drive on it).
At present I have the adapter plugged into the red IDE socket. The SATA drive is connected to the connector furthest from the power connector on the adapter. This results in the yellow indicator light illuminating. If I connect to the other, the red light illuminates. I have power connectors running to both the 80Gb HDD and to the adapter.
I have checked the 100/133 jumper settings on the mobo. Changing them makes no difference. There appear to be no jumpers available to be set on the 80Gb HDD.
The mobo is a Gigabyte GA-7ZXE via KT133A AGPset.
The 80Gb is formatted as a primary partition.
Am I trying to do the impossible? Any suggestions as to how I can persuade my old IDE machine to accept the 80Gb HDD and to enable me to reinstall Win XP would be most gratefully received!
Milo
The 40Gb HDD died the other day. I am now trying to mount a spare 80Gb Hitachi SATA drive from a defunct Acer laptop in its place. This drive reads perfectly satisfactorily when connected to another (SATA) PC.
I have connected the 80Gb HDD to the defunct IDE PC using a Dynamode IDE-SATA-SI adapter, using various configuration, in none of which is it found, though in some I get the message ‘Secondary Slave Drive Incompatible’. The indicator lights on the adapter – red and yellow – light up, but differently depending on which connector I use to connect the SATA data cable. I have set the HDD detection settings to Auto in the BIOS, but the CMOS reports the SATA drive as not installed.
The spare 80Gb SATA drive did have Win7 on it, but I have reformatted it using NTFS formatting. When I did this, the drive letter assigned to it was D:\. (There remains a recover partition on the drive, but I have been unable to find anyway of deleting/reformatting this.) I get the same symptoms when I connect another spare 300Gb SATA drive instead (though this one does not have a recover drive on it).
At present I have the adapter plugged into the red IDE socket. The SATA drive is connected to the connector furthest from the power connector on the adapter. This results in the yellow indicator light illuminating. If I connect to the other, the red light illuminates. I have power connectors running to both the 80Gb HDD and to the adapter.
I have checked the 100/133 jumper settings on the mobo. Changing them makes no difference. There appear to be no jumpers available to be set on the 80Gb HDD.
The mobo is a Gigabyte GA-7ZXE via KT133A AGPset.
The 80Gb is formatted as a primary partition.
Am I trying to do the impossible? Any suggestions as to how I can persuade my old IDE machine to accept the 80Gb HDD and to enable me to reinstall Win XP would be most gratefully received!
Milo
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