The SATA ports on my PC no longer work. Will I be able to boot into Windows from a hard drive hooked up to this card?
1313690
Yes. I had an HP desktop on which the SATA ports stopped working. I installed this card and was able to boot from it. I did a fresh install of WIndwos 7 and it worked great.
1313691
Yes, but I'd be more concerned about why your motherboard's SATA ports no longer work. This card connects through a slot on the motherboard, and if your motherboard has problems, there may be problems in connecting this card as well.
1427763
Yes, you have a SATA controller so this drive will work. You should be able to install an even larger drive if you want as well.
448104
From what I can gather from google searches, it looks like you'll be able to use the card, although you may have to remove the top hard drive cage first. There is a discussion on Tom's Hardware site where someone had to do that. The card is listed as 11.8" in length.
975904
No, I don't think so as the only connecting cable uses a specific USB 3.0 motherboard-capable connector. I do not remember seeing any ports for SATA connectivity.
200490
Yes I am using this as my Windows 8.1 boot drive. I was able to do a clean install of Windows 8.1 without having to do anything special. However to use both of the SATA ports on this card plus the 4 SATA ports on my motherboard I had to load the specific drivers for the card, plus the motherboard drivers. I checked the date and version of the drivers on the disk, they are the same as the ones on the website.
950200
if you're talking about the SATA speed ports, I have mine plugged into a SATA 6GB port and not a problem
1951096
If you've got the requisite port, there shouldn't be a problem. There's no drivers to play around with, it behaves like a traditional HDD: plug and play.
1020804
I am not sure, because I never try it. I think the problem will be in the bios and the SATA cable.
1862214
This card supports sata 3, for the drives that are plugged into it. If the drive is plugged into your motherboard it will remain sata1 if it's plugged into the card it will be sata 3
1801755
You should be fine. The target drive has to be SATA, but the source drive will be read by the controller on the mobo. The supplied cord will not plug into the old drive, so you won't be able to use it to interface the old drive later.
196673
This will work with either SATA or PATA drives, connectors are included for both. I hooked up an old 250 GB.PATA drive as new motherboard had no connectors for it.
230093
Yes, I have two internal drives running off this card, paired in a RAID 1, set up through Win 7. If your motherboard and OS supports RAID, it's not a problem.
850637
I left my sad attached to the SATA II port, installed the IO Crest card, and then started up windows 7...it detected the card and I installed the drivers. Shut down the system and moved my SSD to the SATAIII port. When rebooting go into the bios and double check that your boot drive is still correctly set. Mine changed, probably because I have multiple drives. After making sure the correct drive is set as the boot drive, win7 came up fine.
850636
The card will work without special drivers. However once booted and installed you need to load the special drivers. With just the generic Windows drivers I could not access all of the SATA ports on both the card and motherboard. Once I installed the special drivers everything works great.
101922
It will only work if you currently have a SATA hard drive in your desktop. Also assuming the hard drive in your desktop is 3.5 inch, you will need a 2.5 inch to 3.5 inch adapter.
1811846
Depends upon your OS. Most new OS can handle it. You also need a certain sort of connector to a motherboard that handles the SATA spec.
1548172
Depending on the type of computer, u will have to set the bios, and format the hard drive, if windows 7 is a new install and it was previous windows 8 u can set the bios to install from your disk and it should work.