“I just bought one today with a SATA III cable. Plugged that into the computer and the hard drive cord from my computer into the hard drive still doesn’t work? Am I missing anything?”
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SATA requires both the data cable connecting the drive to the motherboard and a power cable coming from the power supply. The power cable connector is roughly twice as wide as the data cable connector and will be included as standard with any modern power supply. Some prebuilt computers only have two SATA power cables. If you can't find one, your optical drive will have one plugged into it (if you choose to sacrifice the optical drive you could use that one). If you do not have one available, buy a Molex to SATA adapter (should only be a few dollars). Your power supply should have Molex available, which looks like four large pins in a straight line.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.I hate to be that guy, but you have power running to it from the PSU also, right? Otherwise it won't work at all.
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