Great. Do please mark this thread as SOLVED.

Glad you told us. You'd have gone out to buy the single SATA drive, it would have worked and we would have cursed the damn SATA adapter until someone else with specific experience of the device came...

I like you! You'll do whatever it takes.

It's the only way I know.

I mean one REAL SATA HDD and the IDE boot disk. Unless I've missed something in this exchange, you haven't tried that yet - or have you?

It's a question of knowing that the SATA is working.

I think we both know you're at this point now ALTHOUGH you haven't mentioned what happens if a single SATA drive is added to the IDE configuration.

@bobbyraw

The new IDE drive on which Windows is installed shows up, but not the SATA drive.

I've had another read of your first post. This is how I now think you intend your rig to work:

1. The boot drive is always on IDE and this is BIOS enabled & prioritised for booting.

2. The...

Perhaps check the BIOS to ensure that SATA is enabled and indeed that the BIOS sees the SATA drives.

Whatever glitched the IDE drive might have glitched the SATA drive.

He said in his first post: My challange is to keep my main IDE as primary/boot with the existing O/S (XP Pro) and add on 3 additional IDE drives using SATA coverters.

So he's converting IDE drives...

Of course the mobo has proper SATA connectors. The adapter enables the IDE drive to be connected via a SATA cable to the SATA ports on the mobo. He wants to retain the use of his IDE/EIDE drives.

Doesn't your mobo have an IDE socket that can be enabled via the BIOS? Then you can hook up that way.

Something would worry me about the SATA frig that you're trying to work. Maybe one drive...