fitting a sat hard drive

[reb1]

Hi dont know what im doing wrong here trying to fit a sat hardrive coneted up both power leads coneted up the sat lead to mother board i have tried both sat conections on mother board and dosent show up on my comp at all
ive also got another hard drive conected with a sat adapter that works fine
so not sure what else i can do
thanks for any help in advance

[TierraDelFuego]

just to confirm, we are talking sata here?

is it showing in the sata bios?
is it a new drive? if so, you will need to enable and partition it first in computer management/ disk management

[brianc]

Both power leads ???
Is it a Maxtor drive ?
I know some Maxtor SATA drives come with the old 4 pin power connectors AND the 15 pin SATA power connections. But only one should be connected to the power supply.

[QWERTY]

People who can't spell "SATA" probable shouldn't try to install one. :)

Most drives with dual power connectors specifically warn you NOT to plug both in otherwise you'll fry the drive.

[reb1]

tierradelfuego thanks for info all up and runnig cheers
as for power should i not conect both power cabels as was told had to by some one else ??