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How is the best way to determine if a cable inside your computer is a data cable or a power cable?

Is the ribbon cable the data cable and the wires the power cables?

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You are correct. Power cables will always have 4 or more separated wires going into a plug. Data cables have all of their internal wires inside a single sheath.
Trace the cord with your hand, if it goes up to the power supply box way up. its a power cord. and the rest are data cord

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