Motherboard cable from regular to sata

[nixola17]

I have a sata hard drive and it won't connect to my motherboard. My motherboard cables hook up to regular hard drives, is there an adapter cable for the sata hard drive?

 

[CaedenV]

by regular do you mean PATA? because SATA has been the regular standard for about 7 years now.

Yes, they do make adapters: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=100006519&isNodeId=1&Description=pata+to+sata+adapter&x=0&y=0

But a better option would perhaps be a PCI SATA controller card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=100006519&isNodeId=1&Description=sata+controller+card&x=0&y=0