Hello, all. I am not the most computer-savvy person out there, but I know a good deal, but obviously not enough when it came to a new hard drive. I decided to go for a SATA drive instead of an IDE. I moved all the files I wanted onto a slave IDE drive, and then unplugged it so I don't do anything to it (I record music, so all my Pro Tools sessions and pictures are on there...they're really all I wanted to keep). I ordered a Western Digital 250 GB drive off of Newegg, however, it was listed as OEM, so all I got was the hard drive. Nothing else. I was able to procure a SATA connector, and upon making the proper connection, nothing happened. The computer doesn't seem to recognize it. I connected the original OS drive back in order to boot up the motherboard CD in an attempt to install any drivers that I could, but it tells me that I have SATA available on my motherboard. That's all it's telling me. I don't have my computer in front of me at the moment but I will list what I can.
Gigabyte nVidia Nforce 250 Chipset
AMD Athlon 64 2.0 ghz
2.0 GB of RAM
That's all I know off the top of my head that I think holds relevance. If you need more, please let me know. But I have been throwing things around in frustration for hours, because I can't figure out how to get the computer to recognize the SATA drive so I can install Windows on it. I read in my motherboard manual a way to install it, but it requires a floppy drive. Is that the only way to get it done? Also, I noticed that there are two ports on the drive: a data port, and a power port. Problem is, I can only find the data port on the motherboard. Should I also have the power port somewhere? It seems kind of mean that a motherboard will provide the data connection, but no way to power it up. Sorry for the long post, but it was as specific as I could get. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
