Very similar question to:

Physically Identify the failed hard drive

But for Windows 2003 this time. Scenario:

1. Four identical SATA hard drives plugged into motherboard (no RAID controller here)
2. Configured as single drive in Windows as a spanned volume
3. One of them is starting to fail with error "The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk3"

How do you cross-reference Harddisk3 to the physical SATA connection on the motherboard so you know which drive to replace?

I know replacing this drive will trash the spanned array requiring it to be rebuilt anyway so my rough and ready solution is:

1. Delete the spanned partition
2. Create individual partitions on each drive labelled E: F: G: and H: and work out which one is Harddisk3
3. Power down, remove each disk one at a time, power-up until the drive letter disappears

But this seems a rather crude method of identifying the drive.

The SATA connectors will be numbered on the motherboard but I appreciate this might not cross-match to what Windows calls them.

Thanks, Rob.