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Moving HDD's to different Sata Ports

  • 21-04-2017 01:13AM
    #1
    Calibos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭


    I'll be picking up a 4x Controller USB3 PCIe card and it'll be going into the x4 slot on my Z170 mobo. This slot shares bandwidth with two of my Sata ports that have HDD's connected to them. I have other spare Sata slots that I can move the HDD cables to. Is it just a straight swap thats transparent to the OS (Win10). ie. no need to reconfigure anything or re-assign drive letters or drive mappings etc or will I have to do x,y or z before/after/during the swap and if so, What do I need to do?


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  • #2
    grindle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    Swapping is fine, but any programs that depend on links to files/directories will have to have those links updated.

    That would only affect Windows if you've got non-default folders (on another drive) as your Pic, Videos, Music folders, etc etc.


  • #3
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,095 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    grindle wrote: »
    That would only affect Windows if you've got non-default folders (on another drive) as your Pic, Videos, Music folders, etc etc.

    Dont know what you're talking about here, paths wont change as windows will track the UID and mount the same drive letter.


  • #4
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    This is really only an issue if you have any RAID volumes set up. Modern BIOSes and Windows are well able to sort this stuff out themselves. The BIOS will search for a bootable HDD and use it, Windows will locate its drives and remap them to where they were.

    Move the SATA connectors first, then boot up the system to make sure everything comes up OK. Then power it down and install your new card.


  • #5
    Calibos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Great. Nice one chaps.

    It was one of those questions where I was pretty sure I knew the answer.....but I've made that mistake before :D


  • #6
    grindle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭grindle


    ED E wrote: »
    Dont know what you're talking about here, paths wont change as windows will track the UID and mount the same drive letter.

    Must've been my own error when I was last transferring drives back and forth so. Plugged drives in and paths were reset to default somehow.


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