IDE to USB converter
Sunday, June 29th, 2008 by Agro Rachmatullah
My parents bought an IDE to USB adapter some time ago to connect an orphaned hard disk. The product name is “R-Driver III USB 2.0 to SATA IDE CABLE”. It consists of a power cord and a data cord. A 1-page manual and cables for SATA are also in the package.
The manual instructs you to set the drive’s jumper settings to Master. After that you just use the power cord to connect the drive to an electrical outlet, and the data cord to link the device to the USB port of your computer. Windows XP can load it without problems. Plug and Play!
I can now access my 80-GB hard disk easily :). It also worked on my parent’s HD.