Question: I have 3 hard drives in my computer and I can not figure out how to distinguish which physical hard drive in my computer represents the drive letter. When I am in the BIOS I can see the hard drive names; Samsung, Hitachi, blah but when I am in Windows I do not know which hard drive that Windows is running on. I would like to figure out how to find this out because I am reformatting all of them and then running speed tests to see which one is the fastest. Then I will install Windows on the fastest and Linux on the second fastest. This brings me to my second question how do I set it so when I boot up the BIOS asks if I want to boot into Linux or windows? Other notes I can not trace the SATA port number to the physical hard drive because the cables are a mess.
Answer: If your drives are in any kind of RAID configuration, I don’t believe that this is possible as Windows won’t see the individual disks (and they’ll use a generic driver).
However, if they aren’t, you should open the MIcrosoft Management Console (start > run > mmc) and load in the Disk Management snap-in. ?This will show you show you which drive letters are assigned to which disks and you can check the disk properties (right click > properties) to see the vendor.