SATA Questions

[Nick119]

First, when I was installing windows on my hard drive .. it wouldnt let me partition it to the full capacity. Its a Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JD 250GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 hard drive. It was only recognizing like 137gb or something like that. So i had to format and make the partition using Western Digital life guard tools. Second, right now it in the task bar there is something that says Safely remove hardware and lists my harddrive as a removable device at Location 0 (Primary ATA Channel). Should it be like that? And lastly under my computer description in PCMark it says this as my hd info:

Hard Disk Information
Model WDC WD2500JD-00HBC0
Connection IDE
Capacity 238.47 GB
Bus Type ATA

Meanwhile its a SATA Connection.
What am i doing wrong?

 

[Continuity28]

The Safely Remove Hardware icon is supposed to be there, don't worry.

Serial ATA offers hot-swap functionality, meaning you can unplug the drive while the computer is on and switch it... mainly useful for servers. That is why you have that icon, to remove it like you would a removable drive. Just ignore it.

As far as what PCMark says, most of that is because Serial ATA is a primary bus on your motherboard's chipset, it somewhat fools the program into thinking its IDE and such. All very much normal, and you won' suffer from it.

Looks like everything is fine for you.

 

[Nick119]

ok thanks a lot..