Re: Windows Appears to Recognize a SATA Drive as an IDE Drive

in device manager if you expand the IDE ATA/Atapi controller you should fine both a Parallel IDE controller (PATA) and a Serial ATA controller (SATA)..........when you click properties on either one it should show the channels at the top of the box when you click the channels it should show you the name of the HD connected to that channel.
If you check your BIOS you should find a setting to turn on the SATA abilities......not sure where is is in a Dell.

If the setting in the BIOS is on and the controller does not show under device manager then the drivers are NOT installed.

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"Rob T" <RobT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3586637C-D4F4-4BCE-8970-91A96B27CE7E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I replaced my IDE C: drive with a SATA drive (I still have an IDE D: drive).
The BIOS in my computer recognizes the drive as SATA, and the computer will
run from it, but it runs as slow as the old IDE drive. When I look in Device
Manager, and System Information, both drives appear to be indicated as IDE;
i.e. when I look at the properties for the drive all I see are IDE
indications. Also, in Device Manager there's an entry for "IDE ATA/ATAPI
Controllers", but nothing for SATA. The computer is a Dell Dimension 8300,
and I've installed all of the BIOS, Chipset etc updates that are available,
but still the same.

I don't know if it's because I don't really understand what I'm looking at
in Device Mgr etc., or if Windows really isn't handling the drive as a SATA
Drive. Does anybody have any information about this situation; are there
Windows drivers that I need to install?
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Rob Taylor

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