ok here is my issue: i just bought a refurbished gateway DX4710 desktop, 6gb DDR2, 640gb SATA II hdd, quad core, windows vista 64 bit home premium sp1. so far its been a great computer. no problems. BUT it doesn't have any place inside where i can connect my old IDE drives. i have at least 2 IDE hdd's i want to install and would like to install an IDE DVD drive too. i took it to a computer shop and the guy there experimented with an IDE to SATA adapter, the kind that you plug into the back of the IDE drive and then attach the SATA cable from that to the computer. it didn't work. then he tried something, i'm not exactly sure what it's called, but he installed it inside the computer near the bottom on the back, the place where you have to remove a metal plate. it had 2 IDE ports on it. that didn't work either. so has anyone tried anything like this on the same or similar computer? for some reason i think one of these should work. if they don't not that big of a deal but would be really handy and save some desk space by not having to use externals. thank you.