OH THRAWN NUMBARZ BUILDING UR OWN COMPUTER IS SO EASSY PEASY YAA:master:

Okay I bought a new hard drive because the old one died because the power supply got covered in dust and kept restarting over and over until the hard drive was ruined but anyway I have the new hard drive and the holes are different.

so it looks like I need an adapter cable to go from the motherboard to the hard drive

do I need another adapter for the power supply? I'm in the dark here

hah. just get a SATA controller. it should come with a power adapter.

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You didn't check to make sure that your new HDD was IDE and not SATA?

I think more like
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sata&btnG=Google+Search
first result

yes exactly that

or a pci sata controller card + molex to sata power adaptor

see it's easy numberz-pants

I don't know what those things mean STUPID HEAD

Maybe you should have asked before buying STUPID HEAD.

Now you have to get a SATA controller or send the HD back :p

Edit: Actually, Thrawn, you should check and see if your mobo has SATA. There's a chance it already has an SATA port on it, you just weren't using it. It'll be much smaller (like 2cm) on the mobo, and they're usually in pairs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA

This?

Asked what? "Hey guys should I check to find out whether this hard drive is SATA or IDE?"

Read my edit >.>

Okay, but no guarantee I will know what it looks like

look for something that looks like the red and black connectors in the lower corner

AHA!

si? nein?

The answer is on the motherboard. See the little "SATA1" label on the box around the port right next to the "SATA2" label?

si, oui, ja, da, yes.

Yes, I see it. That's why I asked if this is the right one.

If I had just assumed it was the right one you guys would have said NO THAT IS THE SATA MAGNETIC GROUNDER IT IS NOT FOR THE HARD DRIVE DUHHHH

Stupid head

See, you're fine. Plug it in there, and you're good.

still needs a power adapter though.

YOU FOOL! THE MAGNETIC GROUNDER WAS THE RIGHT PLUG! YOU'VE MUST HAVE PLUGGED IT INTO THE "SHRED MY DATA PLUG" WHY CAN'T YOU FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS!

Will I be able to find that? Or are there different kinds of SATA power adapters?



AUGGH

Make a wish...

(If you don't get the reference, you have been hiding under a rock for the past year.)

maby he got a scsi drive.. 50 pin baby

See if your PSU has a power plug on it already.

If not, check your boxes for your mobo and see if it has a molex -> sata power adapter (it's just a molex plug and a sata power plug on each end of a wire, that's it).

this thread just gets better and better.

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its a sad face, duhhh
more like saddowns though

[CENTER]:saddowns: [/CENTER]

Thats totally a platypuss bill.

how connect power supply to hard drive PLZ

what about it?


Threads like this are why yecti has a job FYI

...And...?

That was my subtle way of implying that thrawn should have brought his computer to a shop instead of buying a piece of hardware he didn't know how to identify

hth

Well that would be a dumb thing to do

Don't you know any nerdcore people who are knowledgeable in that stuff?

probably, why?

Hey. I hope you're not putting windows XP on that drive.

It's a MEGA pain in the ***.


Some things you need to do;

Make sure your sata controller is enabled in the bios
Make sure your boot order is set to boot from CD, then sata device
Find the drivers for your sata controller, and put them on a thumb drive or floppy disk if you have a floppy drive

The Windows XP installer doesn't have generic SATA drivers, you have to load them at a specific part of the install, I think you press F2 at the beginning. It says what you need to press on the bottom within the first 30 seconds or so of booting the install disk.

Usually you get to pick out of a list of between 4-6 different drivers despite loading what your manufacturer tells you to. This is a pain, because it won't tell you if you got the wrong driver, and will go ahead and try to install. Then tell you it can't and restart your computer. Then you have to ****ing start over. It takes like 10 minutes per try. It's REALLY ****ing annoying.

Uh oh

Or you can do this:

http://icrontic.com/articles/slipstreaming_windows_easy

Odd, I have NEVER had to install any kind of SATA drivers on any one of my many many XP installs.