How do I check in Bios if my HDD is running at Sata II

I have 2 SATA II HDD's. How do I make sure it is running at SATA and not IDE? I thought I saw on the BIOS SATA running at IDE

I built this system last August so everything is already loaded. Go to Device Manager and how do I get transfer mode? and whats Hdtach and hdTune?

with IDE mode you need NO drivers and the performance is the same with the exception of NcQ(Not much benefits to most users here....)

Hope into the device manager with Start => run then copy this "devmgmt.msc" into the open line and hit enter

now go under IDE ATA/ARAPI controllers and look in all primary secondary under advanced for "ULTRA DMA"'s you should have a ultra DMA 2(or 3 in some cases...pioneer anyone) for your ODD(more if you have more)

If thats all you have in there then your drives are running in SATA.

then go look down under "SCSI and RAID controllers"
and select your controller in my case "Intel ............Controller". Under details you can see a drop down and select Bus Relations and see all drives on it. Do not be alarmed when you see IDE sata is backwards compatible with IDE. IF your drives are here they are in SATA


DAMN PIC HAS REMOVE...OPPSY
Bus shows similar my bad

For Sata 150 or 300 use the software that comes with the controller

For Intel - Matrix Storage Manager(it will also alert you to a failing drive with time to get a backup done)
Others have similar software.

Dont let anyone fool you sata is not faster then IDE as hard drives are still under the max speed for both.

Post back with your results

i agreeeee

I dont have a Sata DVD. It's a regular IDE DVD-R-RW dual layered lightscribe. Why is my DVD under SCSI? IN device manager in SCSI and Raid controllers Gigabyte GBB36X is there. Clicking on it and in details tab it shows PCI\VEN_197b&DEV_2363&SUBSYS_B0001458&REV_02\4&A678335&0& ;00E3. Bus relations its showing the DVDRW I typed previously. In Intel ICH8 2 port Serial ATA Storage COntroller-2825, i shows in bus relations PCIIDE\IDECHANNEL\4$20f4dc72&0&0 and the same below it (so its written twice). In Intel ICH8 4 port Serial ATA Storage COntroller 2820 in Bus Relations it showind PCIIDE\IDEChannel\4&227b4d2c&0&0 (written twice).

(Is this why whenever I try to install my games on my other hard drive it unchecks itself before I can choose the alternate drive instead of the default c: drive? or something totally different?)

No prob.

Its the 965p-DS3 mobo. It should have an IDE port, only IDE is the DVDRW. I took out the floppy and only have one DVDRW.

Games: When I built this system last summer, I bought 2 OEM WD SATAII hard drives. I was planning on using one for all my drivers of components (DVDRW, SOundcard, keyboard/mouse, monitor, videocard, OS), and put all my games on the other hard drive. This didnt work because even though both hard drives were formated and put to NTFS file system, the "c" drive allowed me to place all the components on the drive. When I went to install my first game on the "e:" drive (2nd hard drive), I went to change the path from "c" to "e" and i did that but it would uncheck itself if I typed in the path including the name of the game.

Yes the E: drive is there ( I named it my games cause I tend to have brains farts and forget lol). It shows 234GB available and in NTFS file system. My DVDRW is the d: drive, if I changed the destination to d: would the installer give me an error window for loading it onto the d: drive which is the DVDRW?