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What determines the order of hard drives?

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Mar 15, 20267735 views
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I've got three hard drives installed in my PC, though the drive order shown in Windows doesn't reflect the order in which the drives are installed: SATA 1: 120gb drive SATA 2: 320gb drive SATA 3: 750gb drive In BIOS, this shows up correctly. However, in the 'Disk Management' utility in Windows, it …

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From this KB article: The disk-assignment numbers may not necessarily match the corresponding SATA or RAID channel numbers. There is no assurance of a consistent relationship between PnP enumeration and the order of the hard disks that are detected …

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