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SurgioGomez

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Got a Samsung evo 840 250 gb. I uninstalled all my games to have enough space to do the migration then I installed the Samsung and installed Samsung's data migration and cloned the hdd to the ssd. I then moved to the bios and set the ssd to my boot priority. I then went to manage this pc and disk management. Disk 0(c drive which is for the SSD) I have these partitions Data 100mb and C 209.50GB I have also done the over provisioning which gave me a 23.29GB unallocated partition. Disk 1(my original hdd has been reformatted to storage F) I have these partitions System reserved(E: ) 350MB and Storage 931.17GB.

I'm getting low benchmarks in Samsung Magician when I run performance test. Also unable to change the bios sata setting to AHCI. In magician it says that the SATA interface is N/A. If I go to BIOS and change to AHCI it gives me a BSOD with an error notice that flashes to quick to read fully but basically says something went wrong and will restart. If I dont go into bios and change back to IDE it continues the loop of restarting hitting that error n restarting. I've spent the last two days trying to troubleshoot and googling variations of my question to the problem. I haven't found anything that I can follow. Really could use some help, im getting annoyed. Please help.
 
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Paul NZ

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You cant change from IDE to AHCI if it was on IDE (originally when you installed windows). You'll have to reinstall windows, if you want to use AHCI.

You'll get a 7b stop error, which means it cant find the hdd (because no SATA drivers were installed during the install - that's what AHCI mode needs to detect a SATA hdd)

You could try installing the SATA drivers for it from within Windows. It MAY or MAY not work. But install them before you change it to AHCI

So you will HAVE to change it back to IDE to stop it from restarting because its crashing. Because of the above

What version of windows is it?


 
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SurgioGomez

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Oh shit man that makes total sense man.

I'm running Windows 8.1 through a download. and Windows 8 came loaded on the computer i didn't even install it. I don't even have a Windows CD. So i don't even have the windows key.
 
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Paul NZ

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If you know the brand/model of the mobo the drivers should be on their site ::) Or if it's a laptop the maker's site

Search for the model on the site

Do you know what the brand/model of the motherboard / laptop is?

The key will be on your system somewhere. More recent systems if windows is on it maybe / can be embedded in the BIOS.

And there may or may not be something in the menu ( program) that'll let you create a restore dvd or something.

So you'll have a DVD
 
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GhislainG

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This should help you switch from IDE to AHCI: http://www.ithinkdiff.com/how-to-enable-ahci-in-windows-8-after-installation/

 
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