Originally Posted by
Christian and Beccy
This is my mothers PC, there isn't the budget for new motherboards etc and no need either. If the worst came to the worst, I'd send the Sata HD back and get an IDE one, but I've come this far.
Thanks for your help guys, I'll try what you said above.
Well there is a need for it because your wasting your time on something worth a fiver!lol
PC bits are cheap especially second hand stuff on ebay....
Anyway I assume you bought a PCI SATA card, what about using one of these instead:
IDE Ultra ATA 100/133 To SATA Converter Adapter Host
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...m=270464893013
With this the computer and OS will think it's just a normal IDE drive and function as normal!