I purchased this adapter in order to connect a SATA hard drive on an old motherboard with only IDE ports. The goal was to get the SATA disk as the only drive, so supporting the system. Bad pick: Although the disc is recognized by the BIOS, it is impossible to go after a WinXP installation; random crashes are obtained. After 4 attempts, I gave up. Judging by the comments I've gleaned on the web, the problem is that it is almost impossible to use the drive as a boot disk. If it is added in the absence of adequate documentation (we say that the position 1 is for IDE to SATA, it's pretty, but it reads which way ??), no such earlier, a Y-coupler for food and a Molex to SATA power supply adapter, and fragility of the welds (the Molex connector lollipop hand on mine, among others), it is very far miracle product described.
It is a choice that I will not repeat. If you want to give a facelift to an old PC, prefer the ordinary SATA PCI adapter (with the Windows installation difficulties we know) or outright the motherboard change (with the same difficulties, since 'There are only Win7 seems finally manage the thing properly).
