which is the "C" drive?
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Posted by Geoff Cox on July 6, 2008, 3:02 pm
Please log in for more thread options the above happened some time ago on a previous PC. Cheers Geoff | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Ian D on July 6, 2008, 5:16 pm
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>>Something in you original post that puzzles me, is that you
>>said booting off D: made the files inaccessible. If a bootable >>drive is not present, the BIOS boot process should give you >>an error message and suspend. If you do have boot files on >>D:, the best thing to do is rename them so that if the system >>does try to boot from D: it will give files not found errors and >>halt the boot process, therefore no harm done, and you know >>which HD is C:. >
> the above happened some time ago on a previous PC. > > Cheers > > Geoff Well then, pull the cable from the SATA 1 connector. If the PC boots, or not, you now will know which physical drive is which. Another way to resolve this is to use a utility which reads the SMART info from the drives to find the serial numbers, although that will require pulling the drives to read the SN's, unless you can read the top drive's SN. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Geoff Cox on July 6, 2008, 6:24 pm
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>Well then, pull the cable from the SATA 1 connector. If
>the PC boots, or not, you now will know which physical >drive is which. Another way to resolve this is to use a utility >which reads the SMART info from the drives to find the >serial numbers, although that will require pulling the drives >to read the SN's, unless you can read the top drive's SN. > I have just used Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test software which tells me that I have 00 ATA Secondary Master HDT etc and the serial number is R3CA etc 01 ATA Secondary Slave HDT etc and the serial number is R3C9 etc so I now have 2 different serial numbers and can check these against the physical hard disks. But! How do I move from this to knowing which is the C: drive without trail and error booting? So far I don't seem to have any info from XP Pro to connect the logical C: drive with SATA 0 or SATA 1 socket....or do I?! Cheers Geoff | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Ian D on July 6, 2008, 8:21 pm
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> >>Well then, pull the cable from the SATA 1 connector. If
>>the PC boots, or not, you now will know which physical >>drive is which. Another way to resolve this is to use a utility >>which reads the SMART info from the drives to find the >>serial numbers, although that will require pulling the drives >>to read the SN's, unless you can read the top drive's SN. >> >
> I have just used Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test software which tells me > that I have > > 00 ATA Secondary Master HDT etc and the serial number is R3CA etc > > 01 ATA Secondary Slave HDT etc and the serial number is R3C9 etc > > so I now have 2 different serial numbers and can check these against > the physical hard disks. > > But! How do I move from this to knowing which is the C: drive without > trail and error booting? > > So far I don't seem to have any info from XP Pro to connect the > logical C: drive with SATA 0 or SATA 1 socket....or do I?! > > Cheers > > Geoff You've already determined by using Disk Management that Drive 0 is the C: drive. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by DevilsPGD on July 6, 2008, 6:48 am
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>I have just found a diagram of the motherboard on the Net and it shows
>the two SATA sockets, SATA 0 and SATA 1 so I assume SATA 0 is the C: >drive and SATA 1 is the D: - could this be wrong?! It could. Open device manager, find the disk drives and open them, see if the "Location" field gives you any clues. If the "C" drive is the lower number then SATA 0 should be the "C" drive. You may not see locations of "0" and "1", spending on how the motherboard is designed, I've got an older mobo here where SATA drives start at 4, IDE drives take 0 through 3, despite being labeled as 0 through 3 on the motherboard. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>said booting off D: made the files inaccessible. If a bootable
>drive is not present, the BIOS boot process should give you
>an error message and suspend. If you do have boot files on
>D:, the best thing to do is rename them so that if the system
>does try to boot from D: it will give files not found errors and
>halt the boot process, therefore no harm done, and you know
>which HD is C:.