Build Help/Ready:

Have you read the sidebar and rules? (Please do)

Yes

What is your intended use for this build? The more details the better.

Primarily Microsoft Office.

If gaming, what kind of performance are you looking for? (Screen resolution, FPS, game settings)

N/A

What is your budget (ballpark is okay)?

$100 (in addition to what I already have)

In what country are you purchasing your parts?

United States

Provide any additional details you wish below.

I was given a decent used computer without a hard drive or disc drive and I am trying to turn it into a functional workstation for my wife. Someone gave me a disc drive and I scavenged a hard drive out of a laptop that I am hoping to use. I bought a SATA/PATA adapter to hook it up. I am running into trouble because I'm not sure what ribbons or adapters I need to connect both the hard drive and the disc drive. I took apart an old desktop and it had the flat wide SATA(?) cables that are the right size to connect to the disc drive but not the motherboard.

In summary, I need to connect a hard drive and disc drive to a desktop computer. I have:

• Laptop HDD (250 GB)
• PATA/SATA Adapter
• Desktop HDD from old desktop (40 GB)
• DVD Drive
• Old desktop to scavenge parts/cables from

The desktop boots to Ubuntu from a USB drive, so I believe all the other components are working.

What do I need to buy or how can I make this work?

Pictures

I am happy to clarify anything I can. Thank you in advance for any advice you can offer!