I just pulled out hard drive from a Compaq Presario 1135CL, transferred it to my old Gateway 702GE. I think both are SATA drives as shown on the drive label. (The Gateway PC power is dead). The Gateway motherboard has a different type cable and socket tip than the Compaq HD socket. The Gateway PC has only one Connector cable with ends that would fit the Compaq HD sockets, but it is presently connecting to the Gateway CD drive and the motherboard. I used that Gateway motherboard socket (for the CD drive) temporarily to test run the transferred Compaq drive, and it booted up fine. But it simply disconnected the CD for now. Is there an adapter I can get to fit the existing Gateway cable and pluggable into the Compaq HD socket, or some other fix?. THANKS.
I'm not sure, honestly I got a little lost by your question. Maybe this will help. There are two types of connectors for Hard Drives and CD Drives. IDE connectors, which are very old by now but are wide cables with around 80 pins or something like that, and SATA connectors which have small cables with 7 pins or so. They look a little like USB but have an L shaped plug to only let it plug in one way. You can connect two devices to an IDE port, but only one SATA device to each SATA port. So, it sounds like you are trying to connect two SATA hard drives and an SATA CD drive in your Gateway computer? Or is one of these devices IDE?
