I have a disc drive that connects through a SATA cable but I looked on my motherboard and there's no SATA ports.

What do I do now?

My computer is a Compaq 5330us

Brett , ,

You have lots of choices. your existing ports will be PATA (most shops use the term PATA for the older IDE drives nowadays).

You could swap it for a PATA drive (if it's unopened/unused.

You could sell it to a friend and buy a PATA drive

You could buy a SATA controller card. (And you can get advantages such as RAID).



You could buy a PATA to SATA adaptor.
or

Buy an inexpensive external drive adaptor that takes a SATA drive and plugs into the USB port on the computer.

Or you could buy an external drive adaptor such as a NAS box or a media centre.. These will both accept SATA drives.

There are lots of choices.

Paul Zucker