ide to sata data cable ?

[cyberknight]

In the ongoing fun that mending my PC has turned out to be it seems the ide port on the MOBO is what is causing the problem , i have plenty of sata data ports on it but no spare ide data connectors on the mobo for an ide dvd drive .

Can you buy a connector to convert ide data to sata data ?
Something like this ?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-B...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=CEZE0MZXAVMB0VEYC717

I did buy a pci to ide card from flea bay but the drivers supplied are not for win 10 and i cant find any drivers so it recognizes it as a raid device but i cant get it to work.

 

[Crackle]

I'm slightly confused. Do you need SATA power or IDE data. You can buy lots of power cables which will give you extra ends in various guises including 4 pin Molex and SATA power but you have to plug it to an existing power cable not the IDE port. A Molex to SATA should do it and if you don't have a spare Molex, get a Molex splitter.

 

[cyberknight]

I'm slightly confused. Do you need SATA power or IDE data. You can buy lots of power cables which will give you extra ends in various guises including 4 pin Molex and SATA power but you have to plug it to an existing power cable not the IDE port. A Molex to SATA should do it and if you don't have a spare Molex, get a Molex splitter.

Its and ide dvd drive , the mobo only has 1 ide connecter so im guessing i need an adaptor to change ide data to sata data using i assume the same ide power cable for the drive.

OP edited to hopefully make some sense

 

[Crackle]

So you want to drive the IDE CD drive with an IDE to SATA adaptor and plug it into a SATA port: I don't think you can. Well, not just with an adaptor, you've got to have some method of fooling the Bios as well, I imagine.

 

[cyberknight]

So you want to drive the IDE CD drive with an IDE to SATA adaptor and plug it into a SATA port: I don't think you can.

Quote from the blurb ...
The PATA2SATA3 is a bi-directional SATA IDE adapter/converter that lets you connect a Serial ATA drive to a legacy IDE port, or an IDE drive to a SATA motherboard port.

 

[Crackle]

Quote from the blurb ...
The PATA2SATA3 is a bi-directional SATA IDE adapter/converter that lets you connect a Serial ATA drive to a legacy IDE port, or an IDE drive to a SATA motherboard port.

Yeah I get it, I'd just modified my post. I think you'd have to try it. I suspect it's going to come down to whether the Bios will recognise it. Lots of positive reviews though.

 

[fossyant]

SATA CD/DVD drives are less than £15.

 

[cyberknight]

SATA CD/DVD drives are less than £15.

I would still need an adaptor of some sort, the psu only has 2 sata power cables and i have 2 sata HDDs on the system although the mobo must have 6 sata data ports.

 

[cyberknight]

SATA CD/DVD drives are less than £15.

F^^k it , booted the pc and now it just error beeps without anything connected , im just going to skip it as im fed up now !

I have a laptop and 4 android tablets in the house so its not like a need another pc.

 

[swee'pea99]

I tried to use an adaptor to install an old IDE drive in a SATA PC. Never did get it to work.

 

[cyberknight]

I tried to use an adaptor to install an old IDE drive in a SATA PC. Never did get it to work.

lol
2 days ago it would boot , find the hdd and loads windows, now its started just beeping before the bios screen even loads .Its been a couple of weeks of trying to get it to work again and banging my head against brick walls.

 

[Crackle]

lol
2 days ago it would boot , find the hdd and loads windows, now its started just beeping before the bios screen even loads .Its been a couple of weeks of trying to get it to work again and banging my head against brick walls.

The common and easy things to do in that instance and I've known them work occasionally, so always worth trying, are, reseat the memory and reseat the processor and any cards, graphics etc... You should also be able to look up the beep code.

 

[classic33]

This the sort of thing?

http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/sata-to-ide-convertor-a11az