My Hard Drive Doesn't Show Up In BIOS!

[plumel]

I recently purchased a new rig which was:
MSI 7950
ASRock z77 Pro4-M
i5 3570k.

My hard drive has an IDE slot instead of SATA and there are no IDE slots on the motherboard so i bought this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/IDE-SATA-Bi-Directional-Converter-Adaptor/dp/B003TNKREO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1358874169&sr=8-2

I plugged this into my hard drive, connected everything correctly (i hope) and plugged the power into my hard drive.
When i turn it on it comes up with an error.

PLEASE HELP ME!
Any help at all will be greatly appreciated!
Many Thanks,
Plumel

 

[te100]

well it seems the reviews are hit and miss on working on some boards and not on others

 

[fzabkar]

Have you jumpered the drive as master?

Does it spin up?

 

[plumel]

it spins yes...

 

[plumel]

this is a reply from yahoo...
your link got bunched up so it does not work. but if you bought a pci or pci-express IDE adaptor, it is most likely not supported by your bios and will only work in windows. this is a newer computer so it should boot from USB in bios. if you really want to boot with this drive, buy a USB to IDE adaptor. but i would recomend you just buy a sata hard drive and install windows on that, then once in widows you can use the device you bought to use the hard drive you have already as a back up. sata is faster and there would be a huge performance boost. feel free to email me and good luck.