I have a dual boot system based on an Abit IP35 Pro motherboard with a Samsung 840 SSD partitioned C: Win XP Pro 32bit and D: Win 7 64bit Professional.
The original configuration was with a Seagate hard drive but this was failing and I transferred an image of the disk to the SSD using the enclosed copy of Ghost.
I have resolved the alignment issue on the SSD using Aomei partition assistant, but the original drive was set up as IDE rather than AHCI which Samsung Magician keeps prompting me to change . I know how to edit the registry in Win 7 to enable AHCI but as the system is dual boot which OS should I enable AHCI in first. Should I download and install the Intel drivers on Windows XP, then reboot into Win7 and carry out the registry edit and then restart and change the controller to AHCI in the bios?
Any help in the order to do this would be appreciated.
Fozzie
The original configuration was with a Seagate hard drive but this was failing and I transferred an image of the disk to the SSD using the enclosed copy of Ghost.
I have resolved the alignment issue on the SSD using Aomei partition assistant, but the original drive was set up as IDE rather than AHCI which Samsung Magician keeps prompting me to change . I know how to edit the registry in Win 7 to enable AHCI but as the system is dual boot which OS should I enable AHCI in first. Should I download and install the Intel drivers on Windows XP, then reboot into Win7 and carry out the registry edit and then restart and change the controller to AHCI in the bios?
Any help in the order to do this would be appreciated.
Fozzie