How do I determine which HD is involved in the Event Viewer?

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Published on 2011-11-16T00:39:09Z Indexed on 2011/11/16 1:55 UTC
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My PC apparently crashed before I came home from work (so my daugthers tell me; they rebooted it). The first thing I did, after it came up, was got into the Event Viewer to see what it said. Several hours before they rebooted it, there's a message in the event viewer that says:

The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk5\DR5

I've no idea what that means. I got into Computer Manager, to take a look at the disks on my machine. There's only 1 hard drive, and a few slots for microSD, etc, but none of them are labeled "Harddisk5", nor is there anything there labeled "DR5". How do I determine what, if anything, those are? Could they be USB drives that my daughters used?

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