Ok. I took my dvd/cd drive out and used that sata port and power. Here is the results. 1.Yes 2.Yes 3.No way to test 4.Yes 5.No way to test When I hook the HD up it freezes everything up. It takes away my pointer and it will not let me do anything until I unplug the HD. I can have disk management already pulled up and it will show up under disk management but it will not let me do anything with it.