The easy way to tell whether a drive is PATA or SATA is to examine its power connector. I am pretty Sure I do not have one on my motherboard, I have old ones that do laying around but finding all the parts to assemble a computer would be hard as I just moved. Instead, they simply replace the drive with a new one.ĮDIT: This is based on more than 20 years' experience with a major drive manufacturer which is now part of Seagate.Īre you sure you do not have one legacy PATA port? Most motherboards keep one for the CD or just to have one. Repair can only be done by the manufacturer - and they don't do it. Once that seal is broken, the heads WILL crash within a very few seconds of applying power.
The case then gets an airtight seal to keep out any contamination. They must be assembled in clean rooms where no dust particles large enough to get between the head and the surface can exist.
All hard drives relay on "flying" heads, which fly only a few millionths of an inch above the disk surface. Opening the drive case will destroy the drive.
If it's the Molex connector, rectangular with four rather large pins and located at the righthand side of the rear of the drive, it's PATA, otherwise it's SATA. Any1 got experience in repairing these or know if the hard drive is SATA?The easy way to tell whether a drive is PATA or SATA is to examine its power connector.
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