On one of my machines, my system drive was an IDE drive connected to the mobo via a SATA converter. I also had a second pure SATA drive on port2, this mobo only has two SATA ports. Everything was fine.
The drive were laying on the floor initially, then I put them in the case and took the converter off the IDE and hooked it onto the mobo IDE port. Put the second drive on SATS port1, and left SATA port2 open as a quick connect for testing other drives. Now my boot/shutdown times are amazingly slow, to the point where I thought it was locked up.
Here's the strange thing. I hooked up another IDE drive via converter to SATA port2 and it booted fine. So is Windows confused thinking that there should be two SATA drives since that's the way I installed it?
I can't put the converter on the system drive, no room in this case. Can I fix his without reinstalling? I also don't want/need another drive installed right now.
Thanks!
The drive were laying on the floor initially, then I put them in the case and took the converter off the IDE and hooked it onto the mobo IDE port. Put the second drive on SATS port1, and left SATA port2 open as a quick connect for testing other drives. Now my boot/shutdown times are amazingly slow, to the point where I thought it was locked up.
Here's the strange thing. I hooked up another IDE drive via converter to SATA port2 and it booted fine. So is Windows confused thinking that there should be two SATA drives since that's the way I installed it?
I can't put the converter on the system drive, no room in this case. Can I fix his without reinstalling? I also don't want/need another drive installed right now.
Thanks!