Will make sure of that before I add my new drive. God Bless Becky Don Wilcox <Dwilcox3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Serial is the cable connected to your SATA drive. The "S" in SATA stands for serial. The flat ribbon cable is for parallel drives. The "P" in PATA stands for parallel. It is most common for the P to be left off though. So, you will see ATA and SATA on the different drive packaging or in other printed material. Don --------------------------------- Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search. -- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/