Have a look in Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager for any (!).  
Also, insure that you have the correct chipset drivers installed for your system.  
Make sure the disk transfer mode is correctly set.
 
Open IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
For Win7/8, right click any ATA Channel 0/1/etc. and choose Properties
Click Advanced Settings and have a look at Device Properties.  Insure
'Enable DMA' is checked if it's present.
 

Thanks Keith for this.
 
I'm wondering if I haven't discovered a problem on my system.  I seem to have two drivers per channels 0-5, one of each which has DMA enabled, the other not, then channel 6 no and channel 7 yes.
 

 
Can you or anybody else shed some light on this ?  I get the impression I have two sets installed, one from Intel and one from Microsoft.
 
Is this a problem ?  If so, how do I get rid of the microsoft set ?
 
 

Looks fine to me. If it's running OK, it's running OK..

Check for latest chipset and other drivers here:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Driver-Boost-m2928792.aspx
 

Me
I'm wondering if I haven't discovered a problem on my system.  I seem to have two drivers per channels 0-5, one of each which has DMA enabled, the other not, then channel 6 no and channel 7 yes.

After further review, and to close this issue in case anyone finds a similar situation when looking at their SATA controllers...
 
My system has 1 SSD, 3 HDDs and 2 optical drives.  These are handled by the X79 controller.
The system also has 2 (pseudo) SATA III ports provided by a Marvell chip.  I don't use these ports and even though I've disabled them in the BIOS, Windows somehow sees the chip and, since all six ports are taken up on the X79 controller, goes ahead and installs a generic SATA controller with 8 channels and puts the Marvell on the 8th.
 
With some trepidation, I gradually deactivated all the non-DMA channels, then the generic SATA controller (rebooting after each step).  I then had only the six X79 channels 0-5 showing in the devices list.  Everything continued to work so I uninstalled the generic controller.  On reboot Windows goes and reinstalls the generic controller with all 8 channels (the extra 0-7) and puts the Marvell chip on channel 7.
 
So I've just deactivated the generic controller without removing it and my channel list now shows only channels 0-5 off the X79 controller.
 

Good lord - I'm glad that worked (I wouldn't have had the guts)...
 
Congrats....
 
Cheers...

You can also go to http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect and update from them automatically (I recommend using Internet Explorer to run it). That way you can check if a) A system scan recognizes WHAT you have and b) update any chipset drivers

hockeyjx
You can also go to http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/detect and update from them automatically (I recommend using Internet Explorer to run it). That way you can check if a) A system scan recognizes WHAT you have and b) update any chipset drivers

Last time I did that it didn't work on Windows 8.1. Let me know if the situation has changed... Cheers..

I tell you, WIN8 is THE DEVIL!

Hi all there:)
 
Thank to to all your answers!!! It is solved, but I don't know why!!!! Sorry:)
 
I've looked to so much things, drivers, services a.s.o 
After I installed Tuneup 2014 and cleaned the system, after reboot it was all OK, even now better than in Win 7!!!
So if anyone want's to know what I have done insomma, I must look and see....
 
The problem is solved!!!!  Thanks to all:)
 
Baseman.