My new Windows 7 PC has only SATA 2 & 3 connectors & I've installed a SATA 3 SSD for the OS & programs. After confirming that the basic setup works OK, including the DVD drive & OS, I've fitted an IDE drive for data storage using a SATA to IDE converter. The IDE drive was an Active Primary drive that has been reformatted (NTFS) but its previous Primary status has not been changed. I've removed the jumpers setting it as a Master. Although the drive has been proved OK using a separately powered USB adapter it's not recognised by the ASUS UEFI BIOS. I've tried both the SATA/IDE converters I've got in case one is faulty. Is there anything I've done wrong or anything else I can do to make the drive recognisable?
IDE data drive with SATA converter is not recognised by ASUS BIOS .
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Your motherboard is set to AHCI by default for the SATA controller. This means it won't work with any drives which don't support it. As AHCI came in with SATA 2 anything older won't work with it. This includes your IDE hard drive and even the first generation SATA drives.
There are a couple of options to make your IDE hard drive with your system:-
1. enter the bios and switch the hard drive controller to IDE mode (I DO NOT recommend this as AHCI is required for your SSD to work at its best)
2. some older motherboards have split hard drive controllers so you could run AHCI on some ports and IDE mode on other ports, this really depends on the motherboard
3. use your usb hard drive caddy (this is what I would recommend doing)
There are a couple of options to make your IDE hard drive with your system:-
1. enter the bios and switch the hard drive controller to IDE mode (I DO NOT recommend this as AHCI is required for your SSD to work at its best)
2. some older motherboards have split hard drive controllers so you could run AHCI on some ports and IDE mode on other ports, this really depends on the motherboard
3. use your usb hard drive caddy (this is what I would recommend doing)
Before you change the HDD controller mode to IDE, check this first.
You made an error by changing the jumper on the IDE unit. Check the manual for the adapter. I bet it says you MUST set the drive's jumper to be the Master unit (with no Slave present). You see, EVERY IDE port MUST have a Master device on it to work, and MAY have a Slave, too. That adapter creates an IDE port, so it requires that the drive plugged into it be a port Master. This has NOTHING to do with boot devices, etc. Master and Slave are just the two possible labels for the two units that may be connected to any ONE IDE port.
That may be all you need. You may not need to set the SATA Port Mode in BIOS Setup to IDE Emulation mode.
You made an error by changing the jumper on the IDE unit. Check the manual for the adapter. I bet it says you MUST set the drive's jumper to be the Master unit (with no Slave present). You see, EVERY IDE port MUST have a Master device on it to work, and MAY have a Slave, too. That adapter creates an IDE port, so it requires that the drive plugged into it be a port Master. This has NOTHING to do with boot devices, etc. Master and Slave are just the two possible labels for the two units that may be connected to any ONE IDE port.
That may be all you need. You may not need to set the SATA Port Mode in BIOS Setup to IDE Emulation mode.
Many thanks for your contributions, job done. AHCI setting not changed, HDD jumpers replaced to set as Master, all connections remade & the HDD was instantly recognised by Win7 without entering the BIOS. So the IDE HDD with converter to SATA appears in Explorer as E drive & the BIOS recognises it as a non-bootable SATA 2 drive.
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