which is the "C" drive?
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Posted by Geoff Cox on July 6, 2008, 6:57 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. cannot find a location field! Cheers Geoff >
>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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Joel on July 6, 2008, 10:12 am
Please log in for more thread options > On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:48:08 -0600, DevilsPGD
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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. >
> cannot find a location field! It may be hard or too small to read, and you haven't tried hard enough. Cuz I am vey sure there should be labels for just about all parts on the motherboard. Especially the ones being used by owner like - Power Connectors, Speaker, Power, Led, USB port, Hard Drive, Serial, Parralell port, Floppy etc.. > Cheers
> > Geoff > > >
> >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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Geoff Cox on July 6, 2008, 3:13 pm
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>> cannot find a location field!
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> It may be hard or too small to read, and you haven't tried hard enough. >Cuz I am vey sure there should be labels for just about all parts on the Joel, Sorry! I missed the Location info - it was on the General tab page using Device Manager/disks. the first hard disk listed has Location 0 (0) the second one listed has 1 (1) What does this mean, together with the BIOS info? How do I tie together the Location 0 with either SATA0 or SATA1? IDE Channel 0 Master -[ the DVDRW] IDE Channel 0 Slave - [the DVD] IDE Channel 1 Master - [S_ATA1-Hitachi etc] IDE Channel 1 Slave - [S_ATA2-Hitachi etc] (NB the S_ATA1 and S_ATA2 above) also x SATA Port 0 configure as IDE Sec. Master SATA Port 1 configure as IDE Sec. Slave Cheers Geoff | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Joel on July 6, 2008, 5:46 pm
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> > >> cannot find a location field!
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> > It may be hard or too small to read, and you haven't tried hard enough. > >Cuz I am vey sure there should be labels for just about all parts on the >
> Joel, > > Sorry! I missed the Location info - it was on the General tab page > using Device Manager/disks. > > the first hard disk listed has Location 0 (0) > > the second one listed has 1 (1) > > > What does this mean, together with the BIOS info? How do I tie > together the Location 0 with either SATA0 or SATA1? > > IDE Channel 0 Master -[ the DVDRW] > IDE Channel 0 Slave - [the DVD] It means whatever drive is on PORT-0 (first port) > IDE Channel 1 Master - [S_ATA1-Hitachi etc]
> IDE Channel 1 Slave - [S_ATA2-Hitachi etc] This means whatever drive is on PORT-1 (2nd port) > (NB the S_ATA1 and S_ATA2 above)
> > also > > x SATA Port 0 configure as IDE Sec. Master > SATA Port 1 configure as IDE Sec. Slave I haven't looked at the CMOS setting, but it's very possible that the CMOS Menu may give some detail information of which drive is which. If you have EIDE & SATA then it may tell which is SATA which is EIDE just like it states IDE, CD, 3-1/4, 5-1/2 floppy etc.. > Cheers
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Posted by DevilsPGD on July 7, 2008, 2:19 am
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> >>> cannot find a location field!
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>> It may be hard or too small to read, and you haven't tried hard enough. >>Cuz I am vey sure there should be labels for just about all parts on the >
>Joel, > >Sorry! I missed the Location info - it was on the General tab page >using Device Manager/disks. > >the first hard disk listed has Location 0 (0) > >the second one listed has 1 (1) > > >What does this mean, together with the BIOS info? How do I tie >together the Location 0 with either SATA0 or SATA1? On absolutely every motherboard I've seen, the order will be the same on the hardware as in device manager's "location" field. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
