Copying from IDE to SATA through adapter - IDE drive is not visible

[mlivshut]

I bought a new HP Pavilion m9250f with 1 TB on two SATA HDs
I have two old IDE drives (280GB total) that I want to copy over.
So I figured the easiest way is to buy a converter.
No luck on this one - the drives are not showing up in BIOS.
I bought an adapter on eBay from a reputable seller (wowpartspro, 17444 feedback).
It's a two-way connector for SATA->IDE and IDE->SATA.
Ebay converter listing The the product is called RXD639, Revision 1.2, 1008-10.
The actual chip is branded SATALink.

I connect one disk at a time. Jumper is set to Master Only.
I plug it into the next available SATA Slot 3
(after two HDDs on 0, 1 and DVD+R on Slot 2).
The only thing is with power - I tried with bundled SATA power cable
and with power cable directly from MB. The drives power up OK.

How can I transfer this data around?
Any workaround is OK - it's a one-time transfer to SATA.

thanks for any and all suggestions!
Mike

 

[RebateMonger]

Other options:

* Attach the IDE drives using IDE-to-USB adapters (or the universal IDE/SATA-to-USB adapters.

* Put the IDE drives into external IDE-to-USB housings.

* Attach the IDE drives to an IDE connector on a motherboard in a functional PC and transfer the data over a network.

* Attach the IDE drives to an IDE connector on the HP Pavilion motherboard. Many current motherboards still have at least one IDE connector.