I accidentally connected my SSD into a sata 2 port instead of a sata 3 port. Help needed changing the port.

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Hi all. It's me, the SSD noob again! Sooo... i accidentally connected my SSD into a sata 2 port instead of a sata 3 port on my motherboard. I tried just plugging it in to a sata 3 port on the motherboard but it failed to find the boot info and i almost blew my pc. I need help putting the SSD into a sata 3 port, so that i can still boot from it. I have an ASRock motherboard so anyone familiar with the bios can probably help me. Oh yeah and my SSD is a vertex 4.
 
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i wasn't aware that SATA cares where you plugged the HD into... lord knows i've plugged and unplugged RAID hds into multiple sata ports, randomly and seen no problems.

My only assuption would be the settings on the SATA3 port are different then the native settings on the SATA2 port, and since you installed windows with those settings, it won't run any other way.

So load into your bios and check the settings on the SATA2 port your Vertex4 is plugged into. I suspect the prime issue will be how it's set up (AHCI or IDE), turn off the pc, plug it into the SATA3 plug, load into your bios and make sure the SATA3 port is set to the same setting (AHCI or IDE)... once its set to the proper setting it should load just fine.

oh right... and double check the bios boot config menu (or whatever it's called), make sure it's set to boot from that hard drive in the bios.
 
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Or a simple repair of some windows files should do the same trick? If not just reinstall fresh and youll be good to go!
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Boot up and backup any important data/files. Review your users manual as you will only be using the sata ports attached to the chipset (amd or intel) and not sata controllers from outer makers like gigabyte/jmicron, asmedia, marvel...

Leave the drive on sata2 port and go in the bios and check the mode of the sata2 port. I bet its ide or compatibility mode. Next make sure the mode for the sata3 port is ahci and that the sata3 controller is enabled.

- If the sata2 port is in IDE/Compatibility mode Boot up , ssd on sata2, and go here and click the FIX IT button. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976
Next power down and move the ssd to the sata3 port (which is in ahci mode) and boot back up again.

- IF the sata2 port was already in AHCI mode simply make sure the sata3 port is in the same mode, power down and swap the drive to the sata3 port and boot back up.

- If your chipset (AMD/Intel) does not have a sata3 controller built in then you will need to reinstall windows. Have the sata3 driver available during install as you will need to load them for the install program to even see the ssd on the sata3 port.
Please note that you might want to research the speed of your motherbds sata3 ports if they are not AMD or Intel. Some of the other ones aren't even as fast as AMD's/Intel's sata2 ports and reinstalling could be a complete waste of time.
 
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That's a simple BIOS setting right? nothing else to do?
 
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yes and this only happens sometimes, esp if you have more than 1 boot drive. If you have only 1 boot drive, the bios will find it and boot to it and it will always be your C: drive. Other drives in the system may or may not get their drive letters reordered.
 
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The thing is, my motherboard is m-itx sized, thus having only two sata 2 ports and two sata 3 ports. Both of the sata 3 ports are occupied with a dvd drive and a disc drive. I tried putting them into the two sata 2 ports and moving the SSD to the sata 3 port. This made it have a boot failure because it couldnt find windows info from the port where it had previously. I tried to change the boot orders and stuff but couldnt get it to work... It worked when I booted from the disc drive with the windows disc in it and selected repair windows. Then it came back to life. Now I'm too afraid to try it again. Sorry I should have been way more specific in the original post but i typed it in a rush. My chipset is h77 and i have an i7 3770. Sorry again! And please help me more with this. :)
 
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You have not explained enough unfortunately. The fact that changing boot orders has no effect leads me to think that you either have a Windows, data, or drive problem. If you have your data backed up, go ahead and try the repair, as I don't see any possible dangers (you have not elaborated on why you are scared.) Personally, I don't trust my own technical ability with these matters, so I myself would simply do a clean install, start over again, no bugs, no problems. It does take time however, and all you not backed up data is gone
 
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In the BIOS:
In advanced tools go into storage management and then open up the port the SSD is attached to. On an Extreme4 this should be port 0 or port 1, the grey Intel ports, not the black, and not the ones at the end but the 3rd bank.

In the bios under that port you have the option to configure the port for HDD or SSD. Make sure SSD is selected. None of this should have caused an issue but it does seem to optimize your speed results.
 
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In my first post when I said I almost blew my PC, I meant I almost couldn't get it to boot again before windows repair. So the PC works now but I would like to unleash the full potential of my SSD. I don't think I have a windows data problem as it works now just fine, but windows is giving the drive a score of 7,6 and it is the smallest number of all in the system performance rating thingy. I'm scared the windows repair wont work again for some odd reason...
Oh yeah and the fact that changing boot order doesn't help is probably because my computer is trying to find the SSD from the old port, where it is not located.
 
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That last part doesn't make sense at all. Is you motherboard OK? Anyway, you can fiddle with anything you want, and you won't do any hardware damage at all. I personally would be so lazy, I'd just backup all of my data, change ports, clear BIOS, reinstall windows, and I'd have no problems at all. Backup you data, and windows repair should go perfectly fine, but even if it doesn't, follow my steps, and all is well that ends well.
 
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