yes, you are correct sir. You've heard of the phrase, "you can't get there from here." That's where I'm at, and even if I did manage to patch it through to a sata port on the mobo, It would probably want to format it before it let any electrons go inside. I know I would if I were a computer, ha! I'm a joker, I know. I'm abandoning this endeavor, as my lian li who runs on that hyperx drive has been diagnosed with service poisoning of the PSU luckily the power surge didn't get the mobo. I'm gonna consider myself lucky and get a UPS. But I wonder....why would you want a psu lcd readout tester that gives you a thumbs up on a psu that's bad(that's what happened with the other pc and I didn't have a spare psu at the time, only my tester that was reading good but without a load) That was a 2009 SG31V2 w/FG31 LGA775 mobo, btw. thanks for lookin into it. Sorry for delayed response fellas.