Ehhh Pin out for a SATA connection

Soldato
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I bought a laptop SATA cable thing to put a SSD in my laptop. It plugs into the motherboard just fine with a little H shaped thing but the "normal" SATA end is missing a bunch of pins for the power connector.

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So it's missing a bunch of fairly important pins. Does anyone know what the one I got is meant for? optical drives or something maybe?

My laptop refuses to power on with a drive plugged into the adapter (but powers on fine with the adapter connected up with no drive attached).
 
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