Is there a util that reports drive info....

eyetrip · 1 Feb 2008 at 19:01

Specifically wanting to know if my drives are running SATA1 or SATA2 mode. I have a miox of Hitachi, Seagate, and WD drives.

DanT · 1 Feb 2008 at 19:07

I think that HD Tune will do what you're after.

eyetrip · 1 Feb 2008 at 21:45

Thanks... handly little util that.

It displayed one of my drives as being FAT16.... I reformatted specifying NTFS, but it still reports it as FAT16.

I have another drive of the exact same model for which the info is being displayed correctly..... indication something may be wrong with the drive?

DanT · 2 Feb 2008 at 09:32

Sounds strange but I don't really know enough about HDDs or the program to be able to comment.

mattyrigby00 · 2 Feb 2008 at 10:03

ffallic said:
Thanks... handly little util that.

It displayed one of my drives as being FAT16.... I reformatted specifying NTFS, but it still reports it as FAT16.

I have another drive of the exact same model for which the info is being displayed correctly..... indication something may be wrong with the drive?

if the partition is over 2gb, impossible for it to be fat16

eyetrip · 2 Feb 2008 at 15:14

mattyrigby00 said:
if the partition is over 2gb, impossible for it to be fat16

Yeah, I realised a bit later that there was no possible way for it to be FAT16.

Just makes me question the reliability of the utility...