SATA Hardisk

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 12:14:30 +0530,
  arora.himanshu at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>      I purchased a SATA hardsisk few days back and now I have the problem
> with the installation on my old motherboard which doesnt support SATA
> hard-disk. I searched on web and found that 'SATA host adapter' would do the
> thing. Unfortunately it is not available in my city. Is there any solution
> so that I can connect it to my PC. Can I connect my hard-disk through USB
> port ? Can it be converted into external hard-disk through some mechanism?

Have you considered getting a new motherboard? Rather than wasting a lot of
time and spending some money to get a complicated solution, you should be
able to buy a new motherboard that supports SATA for not too much money.