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JeepMonkey:
My hard drive recently died.  So I bought a new WD 500 GB.  The SATA cable had the typical SATA plug on one side, and the other plug is, from what I can tell, a SATA plus power connection.

I installed the SATA drivers from a floppy during the install of XP process, but the OS install still doesn't see the HD.  I have a SOYO motherboard purchased around two years ago.

Will an "older" MB work with this newer HD?

tetsu96:
There shouldn't be any drivers you need to load for SATA drives, most motherboards with onboard SATA should recognise them.  One thing that you should check on is that the SATA is enabled - I've got a Soyo Dragon with 4 IDE and 4 SATA connectors, and 2 of the 4 SATAs won't be seen unless enabled in the BIOS.

Samstag:
Is the drive spinning up?  Your driver floppy may have a DOS utility to verify the drive is working.

BobA:
1.  Does your MB bios recognize the new SATA drive?  Is your SATA
    connector on the MB or an aux card?   If it is on an add on card
    the card may have its own bios for the sata.

2.  If it is recognized run the admin tools/disk management and partition it.

3.  Format the partition.

4.  It is now ready to use.

JeepMonkey:
The SATA connection is on the MB.  The SATA port has been used before with another HD; it is enabled and works.

I did not check the BIOS.  I will try that.

This is a pic of the SATA cable...
http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/1896.jpg

What exactly does the second connector do?  Some sort of power I assume, since my new power supply has some of these type of connectors.

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