Is HDD disk# determined by mobo sata socket?

pedro38

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I recently installed win 8 on new clean 1Tb hdd but forgot to firstly disconnect the second 250Gb hdd disk #0, so the OS ended up on disk #1. I then disconnected the 250Gb drive and reinstalled Win 8 on the 1Tb drive. I then checked Disk Management and found, as I thought, that the 1Tb drive was now disk #0.
However, when I reconnected the 250Gb drive and then checked Disk Management again I found that the 1Tb drive had reverted to disk #1 and the 250Gb to disk #0. I would prefer that my 1Tb C:\ drive be disk #0. Could I achieve this by swapping the SATA connections on the HDDs or on the motherboard?
Help appreciated.
Pedro
 
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Hello Pedro,

Yes, that would be correct. Whatever the SATA port number the disk is connected to will be the disk #. :)
 

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Many thanks, Brink,
What stellar service!
Pedro
 

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You're welcome.
 

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Hi Brink,
Rather puzzled. I changed the SATA leads over at the HDD end (shouldn't matter which end should it?) and when I booted it up, nothing had changed. My 1Tb C:\ drive was still disk#1 and the 250 Gb D:\ drive was disk#0.
Everything works and boots up ok so I think I'll leave as is. Presumably there are no ramifications as to whether the C:\ disk #0 or #!
Regards,
Pedro.
 

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    Core i7-3770
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    Gigabyte Z77X -UD5H LG1155 (V. 1.0)
    Memory
    Crucial 32Gb DDR3 1600mHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    Gigabyte AMD Radeon GV-R785OC-2GB
    Sound Card
    on board
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Lenovo L220 xwC ThinkVision
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1200
    Hard Drives
    2 x Crucial M4 512Gb SSD
    1 x Samsung 1TB USB3 Ext HDD
    PSU
    OCZ ZS 650W
    Case
    Corsair Carbide 400R
    Cooling
    Noctua - C12P SE14
    Keyboard
    Microsoft Wireless 5000 Series
    Mouse
    Microsoft Wireless 5000 Series
    Internet Speed
    35Mbs down 8Mbs up
    Other Info
    2 x Samsung SH-224 24x SATA ReWriter Optical Drives
    1 x NZXT 5.25" Internal Card Reader / 2 x USB3 ports
    Logitech C615 Webcam
    Hauppage WinTV 7 HD
As you have Sata2 ports & Sata3 ports.

Hdd on a Sata2 port will show first in Disk Management.

Base order
PATA/IDE ports
Sata1/2 ports
Sata3 ports
 

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