Hello! everyone.I was given a Seagate sata 120gb 8m cache 7200 rpms model # ST3120026AS,and it only came as a bare drive with no manual,or additional hardware.Just the bare drive,and bag.I have intalled a ide drive,but never installed one of these before,and i was needing your guys help on this one.I no how to install in into the tower,but im stuck on how to set it up for windowsxp,and what other hardware wires,cables ect do i need for this type of drive?Thanks d for your helps.

First things first !! Does your mother board have SATA ports ?? What you will need is a thin red or yellow SATA cable. A power converter for the powers supply cable, they are diffrent connectors to the normal PATA. No jumpers a necessary, no special settings are required. If you have a borad with SATA ports you will need to enable the SATA support within the bios. Can you tell us what board you have, or if you have the manual read the pages refering to the SATA drives and bios setup. Hope that is of some help to you. IF IT AINT BROKE, DONT FIX IT A8N-SLI Deluxe AMD X64 3500+ Wnchst Corsair 2x512 DDR400 Dual Channel GV-NX6600128D PCIX Graphics Card Ggbyte GT Pro CPU Cooler Zalman VF700-CU VGA Cool