Mavsman,
sorry for late reply. lol
well, SATA drives are quite different from IDE HDDs..
SATA is actually an old technology which was abondoned decades ago because people that time thought it won't happen... serialized parelllel accessed drive..
Presario SR 1599 is actually SATA enabled for factory settings, so u don't need SATA connectors..it seems u want to use ur old IDEs HDDs for extra storage.. the best solution is to get HDD Closure.. which will costs $55 max with aluminium casing... almost no heat with external fan.
so here are the solutions.
1. u bought Compaq Presario SR1599AN, so it's SATA enabled HDD.. probably comes with 200GB or larger.. i assumed. so if u want to put ur old IDEs. set your IDEs jumpers to slave..
usually the computer has 4 BUS cable inside ur computer
it's listed as
primary master
primary slave
secondary master
secondary slave
if u have DVD/DVDr rom, usually factory setting will be set up as primary slave...and ur SATA HDD will be set as primary master.
so u can set ur IDEs remaining free cable with two nodes, one master and one slave.
just check on ur IDEs... and follow the instructions written on the HDDs.
but my suggestion is to get an external HDD closure so u can move ur data anywhere, for one harddisk and another harddisk to set as a slave.. assuming u have two IDEs.
if it's only one IDE, just set the slave and connect in the cable inside ur computer, should work fine.
i am just assuming ur computer specifications are same or almost same as below.
Processor Intel® Pentium® D Processor 830 (#) with HT Technology and EM64T
(3.0GHz, 2 x 1MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB)
Operating systems Microsoft® Windows® XP Home
Standard memory 1024MB (2 x 512MB) PC3200 DDR2
Maximum memory Upgradeable to 4GB* max with discard (*Actual available memory may
be less)
Cache 2 x 1MB Advanced Transfer Cache
Chipset Intel® 945P
Hard drive 200GB SATA (7200 rpm)
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 6600 3D PCI-Express Graphics (256MB DDR with
TV-out port and DVI capabilities)
Networking Integrated 10/100 Base-T Ethernet, Wireless 802.11a/b/g with Soft
Access Point
Modem High speed 56K modem
Expansion slots 3 PCI (1 x PCI slot with modem installed, 1 x PCI slot with 802.11b/g
Wireless Router with Soft Access Point installed, 1 x PCI slot open for
expansion), 1 16X PCI-Express (occupied by Graphics Card)
Drive bays - total 5 Bays
Drive bays - internal (1) 3.5" for Hard Disk drive
Drive bays - external (1) 5.25" for DVD±RW Drive, (1) 5.25" drive bay open for expansion,
(1) 3.5" drive bay open for expansion, (1) 3.5" for 9-in-1 Card Reader
I/O interfaces 7 x USB 2.0 ports (3 Front, 4 Rear), 2 x IEEE 1394 ports (1 Front, 1
Rear), 1 x Parallel port (EPP/ECP standard centronics-compatible
interface DB25 connector), 2 x PS/2 ports, 1 x RJ-11 phone jack, 1 x
RJ-45 Ethernet port, 1 x VGA port, 9 x Audio ports (Front - 1 x line-in,
1 x headphone, 1 x mic-in; Rear - 1 x line-in, 1 x line-out, 1 x mic-in, 1
x surround L/R, 1 x surround rear L/R, 1 x central/LFE), 1 x SPDIF-in,
1 x SPDIF-out
if it's not still working, plz identify the initial changes..
but usually SATA based should be able to use IDEs.. coz they come out after SATA... the technology should be able to accept IDEs without converter..
so far, all i know is IDE->SATA existed because it needs to convert IDE to SATA.. but SATA -> IDE should be already working..
!.. .dont know a great deal about them mate..but hey gook luck
