I can set a jumper to limit it to 1.5 Gb/s operation. The disk numbering is based on the boot order of the drives.
#HOW TO CHANGE DISK NUMBER WINDOWS#
An example being, My hard drive has 3 Gb/s operation mode. you cant change the number since its given when windows detects it, all you can change is the letter. There are jumpers on SATAs but they are limiters. My mix up in settings was that jumpers are only valid for master and slave on IDE drives. Some manufacturers actually make specific ports master or slave. Also you must check your motherboard documentation. It is ok to have other devices before it but must be the first hard drive.
#HOW TO CHANGE DISK NUMBER INSTALL#
So If you install a new drive and put it in place of the other drive (Disk 0) you need to check your bios and make sure it is the first Hard Drive in the boot order if you want it to show as Disk 0 in Disk Management. The first Drive with a Windows OS will be listed as C: and as Disk 0 In Disk Management. When using SATA drives Windows decides Masters and Slaves by your Bios boot order. However You can change the order shown by Disk Management by installing a new OS to a different drive. SATA drives numbering is decided by the position in ports. I was only half complete in my answer as well as I mixed settings.
They are physical "addresses" that cannot be changed. the only way to change it is to put them in the ports the way you want them to show in disk management. On some motherboards (I have a Gigabyte) it has markings right on the board to tell you what port is what numeration. The numbering depends on what sata port they are plugged into. Is there any way to re-order the Disk number assignments? What actually does determine the Disk number enumeration? Is the Disk enumeration based on the SATA port or something else? (If it was based on SATA Port, they should be ordered C, D, E. Disk 0 is the the previous Disk 2 (D Drive) on SATA 1, Disk 1 is the new Boot Drive (now C) on SATA 0, and Disk 2 is the former C Drive (now assigned E) on SATA 2.ĭoes the Disk 0, 1, 2, designation mean anything? I would prefer to have them display in Disk Management as Drives C, D, and E from top to bottom. However, the list in Disk Management is re-ordered. I was able to manually adjust the Drive Letters. The system boots and everything seems fine. The previous C Drive was moved to SATA 2 and is reformatted as a non-booting NTFS partition. The SSD was connected to SATA 0 (master) port on the motherboard. Work to: change system disk, move OS to new SSD/HDD, swap Windows system to a new disk. Change System Disk By Migrating OS to HDD/SSD.
Backing up to an external hard drive shall be the best option. A new SSD was added as the boot drive, after copying the C drive to the SSD. For a used or a data disk: Back up data there to another device first. A desktop system had two drives (Assigned C and D, which were enumerated in Disk Management as Disk 0 and Disk 1).