Looks to me like the IDE connector on the adapter is the wrong gender! My drive has a female connector, not a male.
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Don't buy it. I bought one and the connector was so brittle that it broke before I could even switch my computer on so I have no idea if it even worked begin with. It also looks nothing like the picture.
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I think you must be mistaken. I have never seen a drive with a female connector. They are either IDE or SATA. And both of those are male. Unless you have some crazy mutant drive; in which case I would love to see it. Send me a picture or the model #. The device worked perfectly for me and it looked exactly like the picture. I used it to connect an IDE Hard drive to a motherboard that only had SATA ports.
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I've only seen a female connector (looks like small ethernet plug) on a Toshiba HDD, but it also had the standard SATA connectors which are male.
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Hi, I have misplaced the adapter but it definitely had a female ide port. By the way, I couldn't get the damn thing to work at all so I wouldn't recommend it.
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All ide hard drives ive known have been pins on the drive side and just doing a google for photos I found this quickly http://www.microcenter.com/understand_tech/article/harddrive_install.html showing drives I know. If yours is the female socket at the drive side this one wont work. I think ive seen other adapters thatd work but id have to search for it. Ive just always seen the male pins on the drives themselves. Sorry not much help.
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It's just as the photo shows. The dvi-d port is male, I think you are mistaking it for a female connection.
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Didn't work for me. I have an IDE/PATA laptop hard drive and the pins don't match up.
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Hughes, sorry to hear that the product did not work for you. I ordered the same hard drive for my Toshiba which uses the IDE connector and it worked fine. In same laptops it is not easy to fit in the hard drive and align the pins properly but if your laptops uses IDE connectors, I am very positive that the product will work. As far as i know, the hard drive is either a SATA, PATA or IDE kind of technology. And if it IDE, that drive should be able to work. However, your situation may be different am not sure, but all i say mine is working fine. Otherwise you can also try to compare with the old one and see if there is a match. Thank you. Hughes, sorry to hear that the product did not work for you. I ordered the same hard drive for my Toshiba which uses the IDE connector and it worked fine. In same laptops it is not easy to fit in the hard drive and align the pins properly but if your laptops uses IDE connectors, I am very positive that the product will work. As far as i know, the hard drive is either a SATA, PATA or IDE kind of technology. And if it IDE, that drive should be able to work. However, your situation may be different am not sure, but all i say mine is working fine. Otherwise you can also try to compare with the... » Read More Hughes, sorry to hear that the product did not work for you. I ordered the same hard drive for my Toshiba which uses the IDE connector and it worked fine. In same laptops it is not easy to fit in the hard drive and align the pins properly but if your laptops uses IDE connectors, I am very positive that the product will work. As far as i know, the hard drive is either a SATA, PATA or IDE kind of technology. And if it IDE, that drive should be able to work. However, your situation may be different am not sure, but all i say mine is working fine. Otherwise you can also try to compare with the old one and see if there is a match. Thank you. « Show Less
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I bought this a few months back and used it with both IDE and SATA and it worked for me. I would say you may have gotten a bad one and just send it back. I'm running Win7 and only tried it only desktop. If I had more money to spend I would get one with out a power cord.
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It is supposed to work. You need to have enough room in your case to plug it straight into the motherboard. (At least 2 inches above motherboard clear, maybe 3.) Then you will have to play with the two sata connectors to figure out which is which. Read the other reviews on here about plugging the IDE portion in correctly. It is VERY VERY VERY easy to plug in wrong.
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I'm not sure. I got a new computer but there is only sata connector on motherboard so I wanted use this adapter to connect sata to IDE but it does not work with my computer.
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hmmm good question...mine just keeps pluggin along. Since I got this used from some one who clearly could not get it going with the cryptic instructions...I got it for steal (price of the drives).
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It worked connecting my IDE DVD-RW to my SATA Motherboard. I used the "Master" jumper pin setting on my IDE DVD-RW just to be sure. Most IDE drives are probably set to "Cable Select" by default. Just make sure you use the "IDE Host to SATA HD" SATA connector on the adapter if using an IDE DVD or Hard drive to a SATA Motherboard and if the red light stays on, you should be good to go.
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In my case I have using an IDE DVD drive connected to a SATA socket on the motherboard and it works perfectly. Good luck.
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I have this enclosure. IDE will not work with it. There are adapters on the market but they will not fit in this case. SATA drives slide in and when the door closes it presses them in tightly to make a secure connection. No room for adapters at all.
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Yes. I am using the adapters both ways. I have 2 desktops and one I use a SATA to IDE adapter to run a CD/DVD/BD drive and on the other one I use a IDE to SATA adapter with a similar drive.
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This is an IDE drive, you may need a SATA drive. The model docs do not say what type of connector it has. The hard drive is SATA so I would say you would need the same. Open the laptop and compare connectors to be sure.
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It depends on which way you are converting. IDE to Sata or Sata to IDE. Either way I suggest updating your Hardware. I had 3 of these devices and all failed within 2-3 hors of installation. The other two did not work at all.
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There are no jumpers on the adapter itself. For Master/Slave configuration it would be on the drive. But I believe most often "Cable Select" is used on today's drives. You can use one adapter per SATA Drive. My guess is that you are using newer SATA DVD drives on an old IDE Motherboard? In that case check the drives themselves for the pin layout for Master/Slave when being put on the one IDE flat cable. I don't know if it will work.
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Depends on computer. Go to profile on computer an it will list what it is. IDE is to old interface SATA in newer.
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sorry to say, you have the wrong adaptor... you have to buy the model for the kind of HD you have...