Question about HDD in my computer
Robbo777
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Hi, i'm going to be buying a new HDD for my machine to set up server 2012 on. Basically as i was checking the current one i have i found something that confused me slightly. I have a western digital HDD, for all intensive purposes it appears to be a SATA HDD type 2 interface after having checked the cables going into the motherboard again etc...(it was over 4 or 5 years ago since i installed it so i had to double check anyway). The HDD is connected using 2 flat connectors, no pin conncetors anywhere which made me think its a SATA straight away but as you can see in the picture, its showing up in device manager as a ATA/IDE drive. How is this possible, what's going on here?
Cheers
Also, this may sound silly but what actually is drive E in my computer here?? It appears to be some kind of virtual disk drive. There is only one disk drive (D) in my computer, drive E will mount ISO files etc... But i didn't install it and there is no hardware for it. So what exactly is it?
Cheers
Also, this may sound silly but what actually is drive E in my computer here?? It appears to be some kind of virtual disk drive. There is only one disk drive (D) in my computer, drive E will mount ISO files etc... But i didn't install it and there is no hardware for it. So what exactly is it?
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636-555-3226
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Googling your model number indicates you have a Western Digital WD VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS 300GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive - Western Digital WD VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS 300GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive - Newegg.com
Got Slysoft's Virtual CloneDrive or something installed maybe for the E? -
Robbo777
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I dont understand why its showing up as an ATA device and "IDE" on the hardware description when its clearly a SATA HDD though? Such a strange one.
An nope i dont have anything like that installed, is it a piece of software that has installed a virtual drive do you think? -
Dojiscalper
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Your BIOS settings may be set to treat SATA as IDE which might be causing it to report as IDE, just a guess.
Not sure on the drive E though. -
BornToBeMild
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As far as Windows is concerned, SATA and IDE are of the same class. They are both types of ATA drive, SATA is Serial ATA, IDE is Parallel ATA or PATA.
SATA drives have different connectors, and are generally quicker, but to Windows they are all ATA.