I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that I am using AHCI for the boot drive (ssd) and IDE for the 1TB drive?
My mobo has the option to set AHCI for the SATA but ports 5 and 6 can be IDE if that option is selected, which it is.
The boot screen says the 1Tb drive is a slave drive not the ssd as I said before.
yes some one was more interested in simply pulling the entire post instead of taking the time to simply pull the pw 5.0 link i included and edit the post.I used Partition Wizard to see what that showed and got this
So, PW says I have the drives in the right order, boot drive is Disk 1 and the 1TB drive is Disk 2 but as we can see from my image on page 1, Windows says the 1TB drive is Disk 0 and the boot drive is Disk 1, the wrong order.
I downloaded Partition Wizard because Dalek suggested on this thread but his post and my reply seem to have gone?
Do not pay attention to whether Windows is Disk 1 or Disk 0, because it is the order that matters, not the number. Some utilities start numbering at 0, and others at 1.
I am glad I got to see the post before it disappeared then, lol.
Any idea why PW shows a different order to Windows?
I can only assume Windows has it wrong - it is particularly baffling because when I installed Windows - only the boot drive was hooked up, the 1TB drive was out because I had been doing a secure-erase on the SSD (boot drive).
I have a feeling it is because of the AHCI/IDE thing I mentioned earlier.
I don't think it matters because the MBR etc is definitely on the right drive.
Last edited by stonebear; 07 Aug 2011 at 13:09.
no i don't know why windows does that. my drives are plugged into the sata 0 being c, and 1 - 3 are largest first, but windows says different. the other 2 drives are ide drives i gave up trying to figure out why windows does that. as long as everything is working the way it should i'm happy with it.
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