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  1. theog
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    ME/XP/Vista/Win7
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    You may like to have a look at BFK's thread:
    Diskpart / Disk Management vs the BIOS
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  3. Britton30
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    Windows 7 Ultimate X64 SP1
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    Thanks Theog that explains things a bit. Seems Windows can enumerate drives arbitrarily. I swapped cables yet agin and it fell into where I think it should be. C is on SATA_0 and F is on SATA_5.
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  4. dougjensen
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    Windows 7 Pro 64
       New #13

    Some programs require C: to be disk zero


    So from this thread it appears such programs will work only on single drive machines such as laptops.
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