True or false: When installing a SATA hard drive, you need to adjust the jumpers on the back of the drive to designate which one is the bootable drive.
Computers and Technology · High School · Thu Feb 04 2021
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False. When installing a SATA (Serial ATA) hard drive, you do not need to adjust jumpers on the back of the drive to designate which one is the bootable drive. The SATA interface does not use master/slave jumpers like the older IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) drives did. Instead, each SATA drive has its own dedicated connection to the motherboard, and boot order is typically configured within the system's BIOS or UEFI firmware settings, not by setting jumpers.