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Hi guys I have an emachines 370. I want to upgrade the mechanical hard disk to an SSD. I need to install the ACHI Drivers but on the emachines website I cannot find my model. Please help!
 
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Do you see any option for AHCI or RAID in your bios? If not, you will have to use IDE mode.

Another issue is that you are using XP according to your tags and unless you install the AHCI driver at the F6 stop during install, it is difficult and sometimes not possible to install the drivers (unless you have them slipstreamed into your Win XP install disk of course).
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Do you see any option for AHCI or RAID in your bios? If not, you will have to use IDE mode.

Another issue is that you are using XP according to your tags and unless you install the AHCI driver at the F6 stop during install, it is difficult and sometimes not possible to install the drivers (unless you have them slipstreamed into your Win XP install disk of course).
 
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OK, somebody told me I could use a PATA to SATA adapter or a SATA PCI card. I have XP and I can't enable TRIM in XP so I'm going to do it in Fedora. Here's what I'm going to do:
. I'm going to use a SATA PCI card to plug my SSD in
. If my filesystem is not FAT, (you can only enable trim in linux with this) buy a used cheap hard disk
. Install Fedora and go in to Terminal to enable trim.

I know that installing SSDS is a SATA operation so that's why I'm going to get the PCI card. I heard somewhere that IDE PATA is more expensive thsn SATA? If this is true how and why is it expensive if it's so old?
 
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Nope, lots of people run SSDs in IDE mode. And many run them from XP, just do the install and have the AHCI driver on a floppy disk for when the F6 driver install at the beginning of the XP install unless you want to use Fedora.

 
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What install? I have built a PC before and I thought that IDE was the PATA cables. I have a floppy drive but no disks and anyway I took it out of my towere because I thought I would never need to use it. I obviously thought wrong. Anyway, the whole point of this discussion is that I CAN'T install my ACHI drivers from support.gateway.com (emachines driver website). But now I'm so fed up with my pc's rubbish performance, I'm buying a new CPU, and motherboard. I'll change Linux's filesystem to ext.4 which will enable me to install TRIM. However, I went on to Crucial.com and some pc user said they sped thier XP system up with an SSD and I thought SSDS required TRIM that isn't supported in XP. But then somebody else on a different site said that it is possible but it will quickly degrade the SSD's perfomance. Is this because of the lack of TRIM?
 
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What install you ask? The install of an OS that you will do on the SSD -- either XP or Linux, or perhaps it is even time to move on to Window 7 depending on what you primarily do with your computer.

Garbage collection should keep your performance adequate even without TRIM if you don't overfill the drive.

And if you buy a Samsung EVO drive you can manually (or do them scheduled) run the Magician TRIM periodically. Read THIS for a basic description of GC and TRIM.
 
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