IDE to SATA Converter Card How-To
My computers internal hard drive is ide. I heard that with an IDE to SATA converter card, you could make your ide drive perform at SATA drive speed and all you have to do is plug in the converter card in the back of the ide drive, and connect the sata cord on the other end into the SATA port on your motherboard. I did just that. I connected the ide end into the hard drive, and made the SATA connection into SATA 1 since no other SATA connections were being used. Then I plugged in the plug. When I powered up my computer, the SATA card light lit bright orange. My computer couldn't read the hard drive, thus I had to disconnect the SATA card, reconnect the ide cable and my computer booted up like normal when I powered it up again. How could I get my computer to operate with the hard drive moving at SATA speed with the IDE to SATA adapter plugged in - or are IDE to SATA adapters a bunch of hype?