am trying to recover data from my old 3.5" desktop HDD using a "usb to sata/ide" kit. youtube video here ()
am wondering what to do with the PATA power port when all thats required are the "SATA power" and the "SATA data" ports. heres a pic of my HDD ports
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These were early hybrid desktop drives when people did not have sata power cables inside their desktops, so they gave you a choice of power connections, Do Not connect both of them at the same time! It will smoke the drive, don't ask how I know this... WD gave no clear warning on the consequences of doing it either.
The Molex connector was discontinued on Sata drives for obvious reasons. They started shipping sata to molex adapters with sata drives instead.
FlexPower: Connector technology that accepts power from either industry standard or new SATA power supplies.
0That is a very interesting hard drive, to have both a SATA power connector and a Molex style connector that PATA hard drives have.
But your question is like asking how do you contact somebody when they have two different email addresses? Try one or try the other. In this case i'd suggest perhaps not to try both (If you find that each don't work alone, then you're better off taking your drive to a data recovery place)
What if you power it up with either PATA or SATA?
You could try powering it with the PATA power and the SATA data. Or with the SATA power and SATA data.
i.e. you make sure it's got power and that the data is connected.
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