IDE controller for windows 8.1

[rman3]

I need to get some data from an IDE hard drive and my motherboard only has sata ports. I am trying to use a SIIG SC-PE4A12 pci contoller card which has 2
IDE connectors.
The card seems to detect the hard drive but before windows starts it says it is installed as "81h" and nothing shows up in windows.
I looked in device manager and it shows the controller card as a RAID controller and has the yellow warnings saying the drivers are not installed. I installed the drivers
from SIIG's website but they didn't list any for windows 8 and nothing helped.
Has anyone been able to get a card like this to work for windows 8?

[stj]

Re: IDE controller for windows 8.1

boot a linux live disk.
you will waste a lot of time trying to use "the devil's operating system"

if anything, it would have been better to try an ATA to USB adapter.

[R_J]

Re: IDE controller for windows 8.1

You could try the driver for the SC-PE4B12 but failing that, what stj said or hirens boot cd and use minixp then the drive you have could be loaded and access to the card/drive possible. Maybe

[Compgeke]

Re: IDE controller for windows 8.1

Alternatively you could pick up one of these adapters. I know a couple people who got the exact adapter and it's worked fine for that.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/331243728022

[rman3]

Re: IDE controller for windows 8.1

I don't use linux and I really had in mind to keep the IDE drive for data storage with my SSD drive but looks like I can't do it with this card.
I tried the SC-PE4B12 drivers with no luck and SIIG doesn't answer their support e-mail so
guess I'll try something else.
Thanks for replies.