I'LL TELL YOU UPFRONT i HAVE ONLY INSTALLED SATA ON A NEW SYSTEM SO MY ANSWER MAY NOT BE CORRECT IN ALL SITUATIONS
Question is vague. Are you replacing a drive or building a new system? SATA drives have a dedicated plug on the Mother Board. Of course you already know you can't replace an IDE with a SATA without an adapter (Ebay has them for about $8) or the Bios is incompatible. The power is on the Motherboard and does not have a connector from the power supply like an IDE has.
A SATA hard drive does not have a Molex power connector.
The power connector for the SATA drive looks like this:
The power connector plugs into the back of the SATA drive just like the Molex connector pluged into the back of the old IDE or PATA drives.
The second cable in the picture above is thow do i install a wdeads hard drive? where is - mst64_1.jpga cable. Here is a complete picture:
One end plugs into the drive and the other end plugs into the motherboard, into one of the SATA connectors. The SATA connectors are numbered, much as the old IDE connectors were numbered, but with SATA it does not matter which one you plug the boot drive into. how do i install a wdeads hard drive? where is - mst64_2.jpgll the computer in BIOS where the boot drive is. However, I still plug mine into SATA 1.
The SATA hard drive has different data and power connectors to the IDE hard drives.
If your computer already has a SATA controller and you have a SATA data cable then you need a SATA power cable.
You need to purchase a 4pin power connector to SATA power adapter. These are available from the shop where you purchased the SATA hard drive.
molex to power sata converters
ide lead which will locate itself by the blank
http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/B0001Y8UI4/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_all
molex 4 pin power lead
hope this helps
One bad lead can cause a computer to continue on a cycle or to shutdown or fail to detect your hard drive
Test the leads that attach to your ((hard drive from the motherboard)) or replace all the leads that attach to your hard drive including electrical extensions + IDE,SATA and the ones that attach from your ((motherboard to hard drive))
make sure all leads that are attached to your drives dvd\cd 3 1/2 inch floppy have secure connections and are not faulty even the electrical extensions or just replace them they are probably old and faulty a computer needs its connections to have an end so any faulty leads will end up with a computer error
hope this helps
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