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SATA to PATA/IDE Hard Drive Interface Adapter | 
| Brand: Generic
Category: CE
List Price: $16.99
Buy New: $2.25
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Seller: importer520
Rating:  39 reviews
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4 x 0.5
UPC: 837654148396
EAN: 0837654148396
ASIN: B002Y2NI4M
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Connects a SATA hard drive to a computer with a PATA/ATA/IDE/EIDE interface. | | • | Supports ATA 100/133 | | • | 1 x SATA port (power and data), 1 x PATA port (40-pin IDE), 1 4-pin power connector (Molex) |
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Product Description
Convert IDE/PATA and SATA hard drive interfaces for use with older/newer computer systems. Adapter has female SATA power and data connectors, and male IDE/Molex data and power connectors.
Note: adapters of this type CAN NOT be used with external hard drive enclosures, it WILL NOT FIT. Don't forget to adjust your BIOS settings to detect the adapted hard drive! You may need extra cables not included with this product.
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 39
 It solved my problem January 13, 2010
Trusted "RF" (United States)
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
I have an old PC (Approximately 7 years old). I wanted to upgrade to an SATA drive, but this old PC did not have the ability to accept SATA drives. I purchased another type of adapter. It was the "Ide To Sata Drive Motherboard by StarTech". That adapter was supposed to convert the EIDE bus on the motherboard to SATA but the system could not recognize the drive.
I was pleasantly surprised when I received this "SATA to PATA/IDE Hard Drive Interface Adapter" when I attached it to the SATA drive, plugged the ribbon cable into it, and the PC recognized the drive and I was up and running.
The description is misleading and I don't want to be a "JERK" either. However, but by looking at the photograph of this item, you can plainly tell that it will not convert in reverse, as the other reviewer states.
I would recommend this adapter.
SATA to PATA/IDE Hard Drive Interface Adapter Works Well May 31, 2010
David Wright (Ames, Iowa United States)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This is a duel review for two products that I bought with the idea that they would be used together and they did this well. The products are the Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5 Terabyte (1.5TB) SATA/300 7200RPM 32MB Hard Drive and the SATA to PATA/IDE Hard Drive Interface Adapter. I hope this will help somebody who has the same problem that I had. I have a Dell Precision WorkStation 350 computer that had a 40GB IDE hard drive. I wanted to upgrade to a larger drive and settled on the 1.5 TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11, which is SATA II. My old computer does not have a SATA connection so I bought the PATA to SATA adapter with the idea that I would plug the adapter into the hard drive and attach it to my external IDE hard drive case (cage) then plug it into the USB port. I had to leave the Seagate drive outside the case and only attach the electrical connections since the adapter is too large to fit into the cage with the hard drive, as expected. I then used the windows Computer Manager (right click My Computer to open then click disk mangement under storage) to initialize the drive and format it. After this, the computer recognized the drive when I opened My Computer. I used the Seagate Disk Wizard to clone my old IDE hard drive onto the new SATA II drive. This worked great. I then checked the Seagate drive and all my data, including the operating system (XP Service Pack 3), was on the Seagate. So far so good. I then turned off the computer and swapped hard drives. That is I removed the old IDE drive completely and replaced it with the Seagate SATA II and adapter. I then reassembled my computer, crossed my fingers and turned it on. To my suprise and delight, the computer came on and the operating system started up and ran flawlessly with the Seagate SATA II drive running Windows XP Sevice pack 3 and the computer recognized the drive as having 1.5 TB. After several hours, I shut down the computer and tried to restart it and this is where things went bad. The BIOS started then I got the error message "\windows\system32\config\system file missing or corrupt". I could get no further than this error message no mater what I tried. I finally decided to start over, put the drives back into the original positions and reclone the old drive back onto the new drive. I swapped the drives after the procedure and again the computer worked perfectly with the cloned data on the Seagate that was now running in my old computer. Then I shut the computer off and tried to restart it and got the same error message "\windows\system32\config\system file missing or corrupt" again.
The fix. After many hours of research and trying to fix the problem it came down to one simple thing. The old computer of course had an old BIOS, which limited the hard drive capacity to 137GB so even though the old BIOS recognized the SATA II hard drive, it could not use it after a shut down. My old BIOS was version AO1 and after an up grade to version AO2, the computer recognized the new Seagate SATA II drive perfectly, even after many shut down/restart cycles.
Even though I had some problems with the installation (not the fault of either product), I give both products top ratings since they both work well together. The only draw backs are that the PATA to SATA adapter is somewhat bulky and the connection to the drive is not very tight although it is an adequate fit. I have had no problems with the Seagate Drive.
An easy way to upgrade a Mirror Drive Power Mac to use SATA HDs February 7, 2010
Jose Carlos P. Reyes (Manila, Philippines)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
With IDE hard drives getting more difficult to find I thought of trying a Seagate 320 GB SATA drive but without a controller card. There's no cheaper way (Mac compatible PCI controller cards cost as much, if not more than SATA drives) to use newer higher capacity drives. At first I was hesitant because of my experience with Mac Quicksilver's motherboard recognizing HDs to 128 GB. With the Mirror Drive the 320 SATA drive was recognized to full capacity instantly. I use the new drive as backup together with an older 160 GB IDE drive as the main drive. The adapter lengthens the dimensions of the SATA drive so I placed it into one of spare drive bays beneath the DVD burner, using the other controller. Other Mac upgraders told me OS X 10.4/5 will not recognize onboard Western Digital HDs so I have no experience with them except as external USB drives.
Works great in my G4 MDD July 5, 2010
Swampus
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great value. The adapter I received is slightly different from the one in the picture, but I suspect it's a newer version. It feels more sturdy than what others have described and there is a jumper that allows to be set to either master or slave.
For details on use in a Power Macintosh G4 MDD, see my reply here:
http://www.amazon.com/review/R12W1YJBMAZ5AB/ref=cm_cr_rev_detmd_pl?ie=UTF8&cdMsgNo=2&cdPage=1&asin=B002Y2NI4M&store=electronics&cdSort=oldest&cdMsgID=Mx3IDJFNZBYTPAA#Mx3IDJFNZBYTPAA
Just what I needed. February 2, 2010
E. Hollowell (CARLISLE, PA, US)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It is just what I needed. The drive you use this on has to be the master or it won't be recognized.
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