IDE Motherboard to Boot from a SATA 1T Hdd

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Published on 2011-06-26T15:28:09Z Indexed on 2011/06/26 16:23 UTC
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I want to use my SATA HDD in my very old ASUS A7V8X-X motherboard (made in 2003). I intended to buy a cheap adapter for this. Say something similar to this one:

http://www.cooldrives.com/satoidecofor.html

But would there be any issue if I want to boot from this SATA drive? My impression is that these kind of adapters convert SATA signal and commands to PATA directly and such a low level conversion should be transparent to the motherboard and BIOS - in case the BIOS doesn't support SATA. And, for my motherboard, it sure doesn't.

Does anyone ever used such a kind of adapter to support a boot drive? Any success sorry?

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