I am trying to find out if my HP only a year and a half old, is compatible with a new Seagate hard drive I received as a gift. It is a 7200.8 Barracuda and it has 300 GB. I have opened up my comp and I know I have the four pin connector in there as well as a master and slave and to me it looks like the slave is connected elsewhere. I know there are adapter cables but with and Hp is it even possible to connect the SATA without changing the mother board to accept the data cable? Any help would be very much appreciated.

J

Hi jakerind, welcome to the PC Help Forum.

I apologise that noone has responded to your query before now and hope you have found a solution to your problem.

Unfortunately, from the sound of your computer - it doesn't support SATA. All new HP's support SATA and SATAII. However, you should be able to purchase a USB HDD external Caddy so that you install the hard drive into that, plug that into USB - and there's your new hard drive.
Not as fast - but it's not as useless.

I hope this helps/finds you.
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