What type of cable needed for SATA power?

[janitha]

@Kneo

Yes - those are the options, but the sequence doesn’t seem to make any difference. I tried many combination of this and finally managed to have the mobo detect the HDDs. Surprisingly, even if i say ‘None’ in the BIOS, the HDD is detected once it boots in XP. I did not know this.

Yes, I have only my boot HDD and the DVD writer enabled in Bios, but when I connected an old HDD to retrieve some files, it is detected and I am able to access it even without being enabled in Bios!