If you're looking for SATA to IDE Adapters, these can be found here. Once connected, your new drive appears as a removeable hard drive with an assigned letter. Our USB to IDE Adapter's are generally combined with a power supply that connects directly to the power port (Molex on 3.5" & 5.25" or SATA power). On the main body of the adapter there are three connector ports, one 44-Pin for 2.5" HDD, a 40-Pin for 3.5" & 5.25" HDD/CD/DVD's and a SATA connector. Using the VE225 as an example, you can also easily connect a 5.25" CD/DVD Rom drive or a 2.5" HDD. There are currently no products in this range.Ī USB to IDE Adapter is the missing link between connecting an internal IDE hard drive to a spare USB port. Our adapters are currently on special offer so bag yourself one today! Remember postage is a mere £1.95 and orders are sent out the same day! We also offer USB to SATA Adapters or if need be both IDE & SATA to USB Adapters for on-the-fly connectivity. All of the adapters are plug and play and extremely easy to use and setup. The VE328/VE225 is a fully flexible USB to IDE Adapter allowing you to connect to most IDE devices. This range includes our most popular and best selling product of 2009, the VE328/VE225. These allow you to connect your IDE 2.5", 3.5" Hard Drive or 5.25" CD/DVD to a USB port.
i stopped scouring the feedback when i found that but feel free to check some more incase someone else has another suggestion.Here you can find our adapters, more specifically called USB to IDE Adapters. It might be worth the shot and might do the trick for you. Just always remember to use the "Safely Remove Hardware" feature when you unplug the USB, and always be sure the drive is running when you plug in the USB." After the drive has been detected once, it will behave like a flash drive. If it doesn't, just reboot and it should show up. After the scan, see if the drive shows up. If not, click Start, and right click on My Computer, go to Device Manager, right click on Disk Drives and click Scan For Hardware Changes.
If you get a "Found New Hardware" message, you're good. Have the drive turned on and running when you plug it into your (running) computer's USB.
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The driver cd that came with these cables does not have a driver that will work for Windows 7.įound this from some feedback another user / owner of this device left. I know that I can just open my computer and connect it internally but the reason I purchased these cables in the first place is so I will not have to do that. Does anyone know where I can get a driver for this set of cables that will make it work on Windows 7. I tried contacting them by email well over a week ago and got no response even though when i completed there form to send the email it said I would get a reply within 48 hours.
I went to web site looking for a driver for Windows 7 but when you go to their download section there is no driver to download. They still work fine when I connect an internal IDE hard drive using these cable through my USB port but when I attempted to connect an SATA internal hard drive I got an error telling me that Windows 7 could not find a driver. I used them several time on my old Windows XP computer but I never tried them on my Windows 7 computer until now. Several years ago I purchased a set of "USB to IDE or SATA adapter cables" made by.