Solve : SATA hard drive not beeing read?

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Answer» I have an older PC, that has only IDE connections. My hard drive died so I decided to just buy a SAT hard drive and hook it up through a SATA to IDE converter. I have set EVERYTHING up, formatted the hard drive and was able to get the windows installation disk to see the hard drive and start the instalation process. After the initial copying of the files is done, the PC re-boots but does not find a bootable PARTITION so tries to start the start up process again. And on and on. I have tried this 3 times with the same results. What can I do? Can that set up work? Also, the computer only recognizes 160GB of my 750GB of the new hard drive. any ideas would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks, Quote from: keano0166 on February 26, 2010, 11:22:19 AM I have an older PC, that has only IDE connections. My hard drive died so I decided to just buy a SAT hard drive and hook it up through a SATA to IDE converter. I have set everything up, formatted the hard drive and was able to get the windows installation disk to see the hard drive and start the instalation process... The SATA to IDE converter could be the issue, but since the computer saw the hard drive and started the installation process, I'm not so sure. Does the BIOS report the hard drive and see it as a 750GB? If yes, we can go on from there; if no, the converter is the issue. You could also try this: http://partedmagic.com/ Download and burn it to a CD, because you'll probably need it whatever happens.Well, is I go to the BIOS settings, there is no information on the hard drive. But on boot up screen, when the memory check, and hard drives are recognized, it does recognize the hard drive. it does give me some sort of an error, IDE channel. Quote from: keano0166 on February 26, 2010, 12:36:45 PM ...it does give me some sort of an error, IDE channel... Probably the converter. What is MAKE & model of computer? You'd be better of with an IDE drive or a SATA PCI card. Syba SD-ADA50016 IDE/SATA Converter Bi-directional IDE to SATA http://www.amazon.com/Syba-SD-ADA50016-SATA-Converter-Bi-directional/dp/B002OEBO6EWhat is your point? It's a converter, I know what they are, never had any success with them. How about ANSWERING my question (make & model of computer)?Sorry I missread, I thought you were asking for the model of the converter. The pc is a dual 1ghz with 1gb ram. I believe it is a dell. Got it several years ago when my company was getting rid of old PCs. Give us the Dell Service Tag & we can look it up. It's on a nameplate on the back.

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I have an older PC, that has only IDE connections. My hard drive died so I decided to just buy a SAT hard drive and hook it up through a SATA to IDE converter. I have set EVERYTHING up, formatted the hard drive and was able to get the windows installation disk to see the hard drive and start the instalation process.

After the initial copying of the files is done, the PC re-boots but does not find a bootable PARTITION so tries to start the start up process again. And on and on. I have tried this 3 times with the same results.

What can I do? Can that set up work?

Also, the computer only recognizes 160GB of my 750GB of the new hard drive.

any ideas would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks,

Quote from: keano0166 on February 26, 2010, 11:22:19 AM

I have an older PC, that has only IDE connections. My hard drive died so I decided to just buy a SAT hard drive and hook it up through a SATA to IDE converter. I have set everything up, formatted the hard drive and was able to get the windows installation disk to see the hard drive and start the instalation process...

The SATA to IDE converter could be the issue, but since the computer saw the hard drive and started the installation process, I'm not so sure. Does the BIOS report the hard drive and see it as a 750GB? If yes, we can go on from there; if no, the converter is the issue.

You could also try this: http://partedmagic.com/
Download and burn it to a CD, because you'll probably need it whatever happens.Well, is I go to the BIOS settings, there is no information on the hard drive. But on boot up screen, when the memory check, and hard drives are recognized, it does recognize the hard drive.

it does give me some sort of an error, IDE channel.

Quote from: keano0166 on February 26, 2010, 12:36:45 PM

...it does give me some sort of an error, IDE channel...

Probably the converter.
What is MAKE & model of computer?
You'd be better of with an IDE drive or a SATA PCI card.
Syba SD-ADA50016 IDE/SATA Converter Bi-directional IDE to SATA

http://www.amazon.com/Syba-SD-ADA50016-SATA-Converter-Bi-directional/dp/B002OEBO6EWhat is your point? It's a converter, I know what they are, never had any success with them.
How about ANSWERING my question (make & model of computer)?Sorry I missread, I thought you were asking for the model of the converter.

The pc is a dual 1ghz with 1gb ram. I believe it is a dell. Got it several years ago when my company was getting rid of old PCs.

Give us the Dell Service Tag & we can look it up. It's on a nameplate on the back.

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