Windows 10: Disk order shown in disk Management

I read somewhere that the C directory disk should ideally be Disk 0 - as you will see, my three internal disks do not follow this pattern.

Do I need to swap the signal leads at the motherboard end to correct this - or does it not really matter. I confess I do like to see detail where the main drive is listed first*Wink
Will this work, or it it not to be advised or have adverse consequences.
Thanks in advance for your comments

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the usb disk drive is shown in "Disk management" but NOT in File manager

Thanks for the update.

 

the usb disk drive is shown in "Disk management" but NOT in File manager

Hello everybody,

Thanks a lot for all, trying to help.

I just figured it out: when I use my computer for linux , by swapping the main hard drive, for some reason linux messed around with the attached USB drive and converted it to Ext4 file system, instead of NTFS. That's why Windows can not read it.

Anyway it's done now: I have to reformat the drive. loosing all data of course, but it's the peine to pay.

Once again, thank you all very much

Henry

 

It doesn't really matter. It's up to your personal preference. If you do switch your hard drive cables, you might also have to go into BIOS setup and change the boot order to point to the first SATA port if it doesn't do it automatically.

 

Historically, the only time the disk connections really mattered was with the PATA/Parallel ATA cable that could be connected to 2 physical HDDs. One end of the 40/80 conductor cable went to the motherboard, the other end to the Master drive and the middle plug for the Slave drive. The Master was the boot/system drive. The drives could be jumpered as Master or Slave but the more recent setups were CS/Cable Select for both which the cable determined.

 

Happy to relate that a cable swap did the job, without any other changes /repercussions.
Me being pedantic I suppose - but I found this quirk very annoying.
Thanks everyone

 

POSTSCRIPT !!

The very next day, there was a flicker on the screen - I dont know why.

However, later I went into disk management out of curiosity, to see that the new order was still in evidence. To my surprise, everything had reverted back to the original 'misorder' - although no further cable changes had been made.
Interesting*Huh