What Is Needed Installing SATA HD

[perillo34]

I am buying a SATA harddrive, and was wondering what extra cables will be needed

 

[Mir96TA]

Sata Data Cable
Sata Power Adapter
Off course controller card

 

[footbal07]

does your mobo support sata, if so it usually comes with sata cables, and a lot of psus come with sata plugs so you would be set. if not you need a pci sata controller, sata cable, and molex to sata adapter.
you might also need to download the drivers and put them on a floppy or embed them on your xp disk if your getting an oem drive. its really not that bad just make sure you have the drivers on hand before you get started.

 

[perillo34]

Thanks guys for the tips, my first oem install of a Sata is coming up, cant wait to go from an ata 66 to this, my old comp was at least 4 years old.