old hard drive on a new system

[xarzu]

I have an old hard drive that has those old ribbon connections to transfer data to the mother board.
I have a new computer that mostly uses those cool little ATA (I think that is what they are called) connections.
The new computer has a Vista OS.
I opened up the case and I was supprised to see on the motherboard a wide ribbon connection and so I connected the old hard drive and a free power connection.
When I turned on the computer, the system started up like usual and did not notice the new hard drive.
I went to the Control Pannel and did an automatic add hard drive call and it did not find the old hard drive.
Any suggestions?
I think my old hard drive is called an IDE drive.
The Jumpers are set to slave. The system does not see it. Maybe I need to get the driver from the manufacturer.
Another thing is this. Does it matter where on the ribbon you connect the harddrive? The ribbon has one connection at the end and anotther one in the middle. I am connecting it to the end.

 

[SCSIraidGURU]

Huh?

Your new hard drive is SATA?

Your old hard drive is IDE?

You make the SATA bootable in your BIOS. Install the OS to it. connect the IDE and it will be become D: or E: drive.

 

[rtt_77388]

The IDE port might have to be enabled in the BIOS. I would set it to master and use the end connector. If the bios reports it, Windows should have the drivers to support it.