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Matching drive Letter with physical drive

Anonymous
2010-02-12T03:57:32+00:00

I know there must be a simple way of doing this. I have 5 SATA drives on my Windows 7 system. The boot drive (C:) and another drive (E:) are 150 GB WD Raptors. The two Raptors are connected to the mobo's SATA1 and SATA4. But how can I tell whether the C: drive is on either SATA1 or SATA4? All in can see in the Device Manager is the drive S/Ns. In disk management, all I can see are the drive letters and the drive type, but not the S/N. I know that I could power down, unplug one of the drives from the mobo and see what happens when I reboot, but I was wondering if there was some way to find out from the OS.

The only other way I decided that it might be possible to find out is to use the BIOS to examine the S/Ns and try booting from each drive using the BIOS and see what happens.

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-02-13T20:12:33+00:00

    Thanks, but I figured it out a different way, in case anyone is interested. You click on the drive Properties from the Windows Explorer. Then you click on the Hardware tab and click on the drive caption. For a 150 GB WD Raptor the caption (or name) looks something like:

    WDC WD1500AHFD000RAR4 ATA Device

    Then click the Properties button and then the Volumes tab. Then populate the Volumes and you have a match of the drive caption and the drive letters. The drive caption is also shown in the BIOS, so you can confirm that you've matched the correct physical drive with both the drive letters and the SATA port.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-12-23T19:41:39+00:00

    Thanks for the info, just what i needed.

    ccna55

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-02-12T15:06:07+00:00

    There is really NO software that will tell you which SATA drive is which letter and connected to which SATA port.  You would need to to several tests with the PC "case" opened and disconnect the drives one by one.

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