How to change Drive 0, Drive 1...etc.

[DARKCYBER]

How can I make the VIA SATA raid controller (hard drives)
be my Drive 0 in Windows?

Right now I have a SATA raid 0 and a ATA raid 0 and no
matter if I install the SATA hard drives first and get
them working and then install the ATA hard drives...the
ATA hard drives always show up as Drive 0 and screws up
everything.

 

[Alan White]

If you want to change the drive letter, go start/all programs/administrative
tools/computer management click on disk management, highlight the drive you
want to rename and right click to get menu. Pick the drive letter you want
and follow the bouncing ball.

 

[SteveL]

Can't you set the BOOT ORDER in your BIOS? I just bought
my first SATA board.

 

[Eric Hymander]

Numbering the drives is not up to you, I'm afraid.
You can only work with the numbers you are given.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=102873

You can, however, refer to SATA as SCSI in the BIOS setup - I trust you have
already exhausted that as an option. In my case, similar but not
specifically related, I have a small IDE drive which is the system drive
(bootloader - boots the machine) and passes control over to the RAID as the
boot drive (boots the OS). Thus - the classic "work-around."