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Did not think of using the 2nd IDE connector. DUH Will give that a try and again thanks for the help.

Thanks for all the replies. The adapter I am using is a StarTech Pata2Sata2 IDE to SATA Drive Motherboard Adapter. It plugs directly into the IDE connector on the motherboard. Since it uses that connector there is no way, that I can find, to run both the IDE harddrive and the Sata drive at the same time without using the usb port and a usb enclosure. I have tried to put the Sata drive into the enclosure and clone the existing drive to it, but the system will not recognize the sata drive. I put the sata drive in the computer and booted the computer. The bios picked up the new drive as it should but since there is no operating system on the drive naturally it wouldn’t go any further. I put the drive in my main desktop as a second drive, this motherboard supports both sata and pata. The primary drive is pata with Win 7. The system picked up the new drive but only as an ata drive and it does not show up when I open “my computer” but is in the device manager.

Thanks, I have the enclosure for both ata and sata and I am downloading the trial version of acronis now. Thanks again for the reply.