Should not be possible; unless of course it's a SATA drive that also has an IDE connection. If you use a SATA cable and plug it into a SATA port, that should be it.
Should not be possible; unless of course it's a SATA drive that also has an IDE connection. If you use a SATA cable and plug it into a SATA port, that should be it.
He probably has his sata ports set to IDE/legacy instead of AHCI. This can be switched in the bios.