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Profile: stranger
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I purchased a Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3250823AS 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM

on newegg.com

product #N82E16822148065

and I need a specific type of cable to hook it up to my power supply and motherboard. There are about 2 or 3 spots to put a cable in on the hard drive, I am not positive what cable I need...please any help will be appriciated. Thank you

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I believe you need the following:

Power Adapter
SATA cable

The power adapter converts your standard power connection to a SATA power connection. Do you know for sure if your computer has an SATA connection on your motherboard? I hope so, or the drive is useless

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yep that'a be the one. nice job.


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