IDE to SATA Dongle??

[cold2000us]

I was scoping through EBAY and I came across a listing for a dongle which converts your IDE devices into a SATA device.

Now I bought one of these and now after ordering it I am having 2nd thoughts as to if it would really work or not. The problem is that my pins of my IDE on my motherboard are bent and I am having a real tough time aligning them so the best thing that was suggested to me was to get a SATA drive and not even mess with the IDE anymore since luckily my motherboard has a SATA on it.

This HD that is IDE that I will be converting to SATA using the above mentioned dongle still has to be formatted and I still have to install an Operating System on it.

Now my question is
1. Do these dongle's even work?
2. If they do work, would I still be able to use the seagate cd that came with my HD to format it or does converting it to SATA mean I would have to use some other means to format it?
3. If you have any experience or can give me a little input on if this works then I would greatly appreciate it.

Here is the thing that I bought.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISA...8&ed=1095611778000

Any feedback on this would be appreciated

 

[Smilin]

There was an article on Tomshardware about 6-12 months ago covering these. Yeah they work. Many SATA drives are actually IDE with the converters built in too.

 

[oldman420]

1, Yes pretty good but you may want to secure it to the drive with a bit of hot glue"often a momentary disconnect will corrupt a hdd".
2, XP will See it as a normal hdd the only difference is the interface.
3, i have used drive converters several times and have never had a problem. just be careful of momentary drive disconnects,its easy to do with these.

 

[cold2000us]

thx for feedback guys

 

[cold2000us]

well i tried this and now i have a problem on my hands. i used the converter to connect my dvd drive and make it a sata drive. i set my bios on combined so it would read the sata and it just didnt work. My computer froze at the windows startup or when i reset it it wouldnt allow me to go into my bios. so i decided to back to my old setup the way i had it before so i set up bios and put it on disabled so it would only read the ide. now the problem is that windows and my hard drive load up fine and when i start up my pc, my cd drive flash green and i can eject it and it seems fine but it is not recognized in my bios or in windows. i set the bios and jumpers back to the way they were and its not being recognized in bios but it ejects and lights up and stuff.

can anyone please help

 

[sswingle]

I don't know if they work with dvd/cd drives...I use one on a hard drive with no problems though.

 

[nealh]

try uninstalling the drive in device manager and reboot and allow winxp to reinstall the drive

 

[cold2000us]

problem is they dont show up in bios or in the device manager

 

[jackschmittusa]

I have only heard one one dvd drive that works with sata (a Plextor, I think, new item). I suppose you could try to flash the firmware on the drive and see if that fixes it.

 

[nealh]

sounds like optical drive is not compbatable with the dongle