Used to be Hints n Tips - advice needed on fitting a hard drive.....

[Grahamm]

There's a difference between "working properly" and playing around with settings to (possibly) get faster performance which may, in itself, have drawbacks eg write-caching which is fine until you get a power glitch as it's half-way through writing.

You can also switch to AHCI (if it's not already set up), but you have to be confident with playing around with the Registry and even then not all drives show a noticable improvement.

But I'm sure you already knew that.