I have even seen connectors that could be inserted one pin off to the left/right. Some of these bridges can be connected with wrong orientation (rotated 180°) due to missing keying of pin 20 and the connectors shape. So make sure you got the correct bridge (and if it is a bidirectional one, you connected the right SATA port).Īlso check correct orientation and position of the ATA connector.
There are some bridges however that work both ways but those I know have separate SATA ports for SATA host and SATA drive. Either ATA host and SATA drive or vice versa. These ATA (you call it IDE) to SATA bridges usually only work one way. Switching the settings on the drive itself from CS, SL, MA and then removing the jumper all togetherĬ: 60GB vertex 2 SSD (50GB partitioned for Windows)Į: 2TB NTFS (Contains Program Files, Program Files(x86), User Files) Going into device manager and checking for any extra drivers.
The device itself is getting power and so is the optical drive, I can vouch for the power supply and motherboard working correctly because they are new and I have been using them for the past week and this is a fresh install of windows 7 64bit
The only indication that the computer knows that it can see the optical drive is upon start-up the computer automatically goes straight into the BIOS. I got a IDE to SATA converter via Amazon, however when I hooked it all up the computer doesn't recognize the optical drive on windows 7 64bit.