Installing SATA Hard Drive in an Old Motherboard

Problem:
Old computer motherboard does not have SATA slots and does not support SATA in the BIOS.

Solution:

1. Purchase a PCI Sata Card.

2. Don't put SATA card at this time, boot the PC into the BIOS settings screen. Run the Auto-Detection function for each installed IDE Hard Drive. Then set the detection to "Manual". Leave CD/DVD drives set to "Auto" if they cant be manually set to "CD ROM" (or similar)

3. Put SATA card, connect the SATA hardrive to the card. Power up, you must see on screen the drive you have been installed.

4. Download this utility from Seagate. DiscWizard will see the Seagate or Maxtor drive and allow it to be formatted. http://www.seagate.com/support/discwizard/DiscWizardSetup.en.exe

Try the driver/exe that's located in a folder labeled the same as the CHIP that is on the card. This may vary, but in this case it was SETUP.EXE in the "VT6421" folder. Then check the drivers in Control Panel; System. They may be shown as SCSI rather than SATA as old motherboards dont know what SATA is, and just guess it's SCSI hardware.