I have this elderly PC I'm playing around with : An Acer Aspire T650. The MB has both SATA & IDE ports. The cdrom is setup on the primary IDE. I am trying to introduce a SATA HD so as to install an OS. However, the bios has no support for SATA. I was able to get all drivers from ACER including hopefully a bios update. The PC seems to support USB, so I added the bios update to a USB flash drive hoping to trick the PC into getting it to recognize the HD. No luck. I ordered a cable that would connect the HD directly to the PC's USB port but not sure how this will play out. Any ideas or suggestions ?? Thanks much , for your time .....