A friend of mine let me have a what appears to be SATA hard drive (I confirmed that it was) when I was going to reformat my computer anyways. So he told me that I would have to press F8 during WinXP installation process in order for the system to recognize the drive. So I did that but in the installation process when I pressed F8 the driver that was for my SATA hard drive said SCSI driver. Not knowing what to do I just pressed enter and everything loaded.
Now down the road I wanted to check my hard drive status as well as figure out the rate at which data was being transfered from my drive to my ram. So I downloaded SiSandraSoft and ran a test on my hard drive. It came up with my drive only transfering 33 mb/s than 150 mb/s. And when I check it against the rest of the benchmarks it matched up exactly with a SCSI drive. And when I checked the drive in the Windows information system it said that my drive was a SCSI not and SATA.
I also noticed that it has been retrieving data very slow lately. I already defraged a bunch of times as well as virus scans and checked for spyware. And it seems no matter what I do it still runs slow. My question is it is possible that I installed the wrong driver and the computer mistakes it for the SCSI and runs as fast as a SCSI? Or is it something wrong with my driver or hard drive?
Now down the road I wanted to check my hard drive status as well as figure out the rate at which data was being transfered from my drive to my ram. So I downloaded SiSandraSoft and ran a test on my hard drive. It came up with my drive only transfering 33 mb/s than 150 mb/s. And when I check it against the rest of the benchmarks it matched up exactly with a SCSI drive. And when I checked the drive in the Windows information system it said that my drive was a SCSI not and SATA.
I also noticed that it has been retrieving data very slow lately. I already defraged a bunch of times as well as virus scans and checked for spyware. And it seems no matter what I do it still runs slow. My question is it is possible that I installed the wrong driver and the computer mistakes it for the SCSI and runs as fast as a SCSI? Or is it something wrong with my driver or hard drive?
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