SATA harddrive on a new (currently arm deep in it) build

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by ribbon I guess you meant IDE cable
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as long as the sata drive cable is attached, your motherboard can boot from it after you installed the operating system. (I know, I've plugged my drives on 5 and 6 before, Asus motherboard.)

all you need is SATA data cable, and SATA power cable, you can safely ignore the other connection.
 

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