So, big deal here..

[nelska]

I have a build with an ssd hhd and cdrom drive.. i have a newer psu with 3 sata cables. does it matter which sata cable plugs into which drive? Theres nothing on the power cords that say sata cable 1 sata cable 2 ect. Theres absolutely no way to tell on this psu. I'm guessing. is there anyway to tell without guessing? just wondering in a perfect world i would want sata power cable one plugged into the ssd. ect. thanks

[aezakmi]

no don't worry you can use any sata cable to power any drive

[LukeSavenije]

There is no difference. Sata power is sata power. It has nothing to do with your sata cable configuration

[fabafaba]

I always ran my SATA devices on the same cable and never had a problem.
 

[nelska]

i mean its not a perfect stairway to heaven.. but if it could be it would be.. i should have got a psu with the plug in sata cables because the way it comes you cant follow them all the way back to the board its all under the hood of the psu

[Brooksie359]

You are essentially askibg does it matter what wall outlet you plug a lamp into. The answer is no it doesn't. The psu is simply supplying power to the drives. 

[nelska]

thanks for covering that guys, but in a more important note. which order should they be ported ssd(boot drive), hhd, then cdrom? 123?

[nelska]

also, i switched from hhd to ssd to boot from and now when i start the computer it asks me which volume i want to start windows in im guessing this is because theres now two versions of windows on my pc? which one do i delete? i dont want to defuse the wrong bomb here

[nelska]

oh and now my cpu is boosting up to 90% + usage.. is that just because the ssd is so fast now or what.. it used to never go 100% cpu usage.. PROBLEM.

[nelska]

im literally juggling till it seems right

[Brooksie359]

11 minutes ago, nelska said:

also, i switched from hhd to ssd to boot from and now when i start the computer it asks me which volume i want to start windows in im guessing this is because theres now two versions of windows on my pc? which one do i delete? i dont want to defuse the wrong bomb here

You me as to quote people for then to get a notification that you responded to them. You likely won't get answers of you don't quote someone when asking them questions. You can also @ them as well if you prefer. As far as your question I would have to ask if you installed Windows on the sad already. 

[LukeSavenije]

14 minutes ago, nelska said:

thanks for covering that guys, but in a more important note. which order should they be ported ssd(boot drive), hhd, then cdrom? 123?

Doesnt matter. Try to quote people

 

14 minutes ago, nelska said:

also, i switched from hhd to ssd to boot from and now when i start the computer it asks me which volume i want to start windows in im guessing this is because theres now two versions of windows on my pc? which one do i delete? i dont want to defuse the wrong bomb here

The one on the hhd of course. But back up everything you need before you do that

 

12 minutes ago, nelska said:

oh and now my cpu is boosting up to 90% + usage.. is that just because the ssd is so fast now or what.. it used to never go 100% cpu usage.. PROBLEM.

That could be for many reasons.

[nelska]

ive deleted the hhd and its still asking me which volume i want to boot from so im not sure, im worried about the cpu spikes wasnt ever like this i duno what it could be.

[Brooksie359]

1 minute ago, nelska said:

ive deleted the hhd and its still asking me which volume i want to boot from so im not sure, im worried about the cpu spikes wasnt ever like this i duno what it could be.

You have to quote people otherwise we have no idea who you are talking about. Underneath someone's response Is an arrow that points to the left. You hit that to quote some or you can just @ them as another option. Anyways you still didn't answer if you have installed Windows on the ssd. 

[nelska]

1 minute ago, Brooksie359 said:

You have to quote people otherwise we have no idea who you are talking about. Underneath someone's response Is an arrow that points to the left. You hit that to quote some or you can just @ them as another option. Anyways you still didn't answer if you have installed Windows on the ssd. 

oooh ok yes. you said sad not ssd the first time so i was confused. yes and its booting from that its all done on disk management and ive formatted the hhd but its still asking me which volume to boot.. the usb i installed from has been disconnected im not sure whats going on

[Brooksie359]

1 minute ago, nelska said:

oooh ok yes. you said sad not ssd the first time so i was confused. yes and its booting from that its all done on disk management and ive formatted the hhd but its still asking me which volume to boot.. the usb i installed from has been disconnected im not sure whats going on

So you installed onto the ssd using the usb boot drive. As long as you did it correctly you will just have to select the ssd. It could be that you have a partition in the ssd and it is asking what part of the ssd do you want to boot from. It could also be the case that the computer is failing to recognize the ssd so although you have the ssd as the priority to boot from it still won't boot because it can't find it.     

[nelska]

1 minute ago, Brooksie359 said:

So you installed onto the ssd using the usb boot drive. As long as you did it correctly you will just have to select the ssd. It could be that you have a partition in the ssd and it is asking what part of the ssd do you want to boot from. It could also be the case that the computer is failing to recognize the ssd so although you have the ssd as the priority to boot from it still won't boot because it can't find it.     

right. im not quite sure. is there anywhere that will tell me where the two different versions are? I might just reinstall windows again now that the hhd has been totally wiped clean

[Brooksie359]

4 hours ago, nelska said:

right. im not quite sure. is there anywhere that will tell me where the two different versions are? I might just reinstall windows again now that the hhd has been totally wiped clean

yeah just reinstall. that is what i usually do when I cant figure software issue. sorry for the late reply for some reason my notifications weren't working correctly. 

[nelska]

1 hour ago, Brooksie359 said:

yeah just reinstall. that is what i usually do when I cant figure software issue. sorry for the late reply for some reason my notifications weren't working correctly. 

I formatted the hhd but i needed to delete the volume and create a new one.. once i did that and restarted problemo solvoed.

[nelska]

and btw i totally figured out which sata power cables where 1, 2 and 3. 3 was the easiest one because it's technically not a sata cable its the 4 prong oldschool kind i had to buy an adapter for. So i used that one for the cd rom. Then it was just as easy as swapping out the ssd and hhd until the sata powercable fell first into the ssd sata port zero.(1) on my pc. wooo. balance to the force.