SATA AHCI

[XD_dued]

If i have a sata hard drive and am planning on installing windows vista 64 home premium. Do i need to press f6 during installation to enable AHCI with a floppy for a successful installation? My xp wouldn't install without it and it gave me lots of trouble. Another problem is that the driver is too big to fit on a floppy...can i use a usb flash drive????

 

[notherdude]

I'm pretty sure Vista has generic AHCI drivers built in and will install a HD on a AHCI enabled port without using f6 but I must admit I have not tried it myself. I do know that some SATA DVD drives have issues and must be put in IDE mode to get an install up.

Someone else may have the bottom line on this but I suggest you try it and find out. If you need the drivers surely they can be put on a flash drive and that should surely work.

Last I heard AHCI offered nothing much of interest to the home user, has this changed?

 

[pat mcgroin]

It will work natively.

 

[4Ryan6]

I do know that some SATA DVD drives have issues and must be put in IDE mode to get an install up.

Affirmative!