Problem to recognize HDD using IDE-SATA Adapter

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Hello, well, i have a p8z77-m pro motherboard so it only have 2 sata 3 ports and 4 sata 2 ports, so i'm using 1 sata 3 for an SSD and now i wanted to use one old HDD of my previous PC for storage so i bought the adapter and i'm trying to make it work, i already changed it to slave mode (i don't really know if that is needed) now here is the problem, my PC doesn't recognize the HDD and even worse, it slowed the bios and windows boot, since i have an SSD it usually boot in 5 seconds or so and now it takes 15-20 o_O

some more info:
1) the adapter is installed in a sata 2 port
2) the hdd is not formatted (it have windows and everything from the old PC)
3) i didn't change anything in the bios yet, i even put it in default mode at the first time i saw the slow boot
4) the HDD is not even recognized in the bios neither in the windows
5) the adapter light is on so it's working
 
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The problem will be that your motherboard is set to AHCI mode. Your old IDE hard drive and bridge don't support AHCI. To support your old hard drive you have a couple of options 1). enter the bios and change the hard drive controller mode to IDE or 2). buy a USB hard drive dock. As you have an SSD I would not recommend changing the hard drive controller mode, this will lead your OS to treating the SSD as a normal hard drive, this means no TRIM and the dreaded defrag. Personally, I'd go for the USB hard drive dock but that's partly because I already have one.

pauls3743

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The problem will be that your motherboard is set to AHCI mode. Your old IDE hard drive and bridge don't support AHCI. To support your old hard drive you have a couple of options 1). enter the bios and change the hard drive controller mode to IDE or 2). buy a USB hard drive dock. As you have an SSD I would not recommend changing the hard drive controller mode, this will lead your OS to treating the SSD as a normal hard drive, this means no TRIM and the dreaded defrag. Personally, I'd go for the USB hard drive dock but that's partly because I already have one.
 
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