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Sata Port Numbering
Sata ports are numbered on a mobo but I have alwarys had trouble relating them to Disk numbering in Windows Disk Manager. I have never seen in the bios what port a disk was connected to.
Which brings me to my question. Has anyone ever seen this behaviour? When I set up a rig with multiple disks. I clean the OS disk and plug it in alone by it self. Then after I have verified it will boot I will add a disk and clean it for third party apps. (clean means partition and format). Then I may have one or two more disks with data to install that was in another rig. I never cleaned those I just plugged them in. I noticed that my bios was hesitating on the boot as it read the disks. So I took the data off and cleaned them. Then installed them one at time each time booting letting windows install the driver and write the "System Volume Information". This caused a much smoother boot in the bios.
This makes me wonder what is in the "System Volume Information" that confuses the bios? Probably Disk type, Disk size, etc. Maybe a reference to a particular port?