Installing an IDE Hard Drive in a Acer Aspire M5620

[moose067]

I just purchased an Acer AM5620-E5512A

It is Quad Core Intel

I am trying to install an extra hard drive an IDE 320GB Western Digital HD.

I am running Vista 64-bit the computer is recognizing the drive as a floppy drive how can i fix this?

There was only one IDE port on the motherboard.

I went into the bios and there is no option to change the drive to another category.

I am trying to get this to work without having to purchase an IDE to SATA adapter if possible.

Thanks

 

[setishock]

Some modern motherboards don't have an IDE connector. They do for some odd reason have a floppy drive connector. I don't know how you got it to plug in but that's the reason it shows as a floppy and not a hard drive.

 

[thebanditblog]

Try getting a 3 port ide cable and slave one hard drive to the other.