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XD_dued   01-18-2009 at 03:42:32 AM

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????

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notherdude   01-18-2009 at 03:20:44 PM
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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?

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pat mcgroin   01-18-2009 at 04:56:31 PM
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It will work natively.

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4ryan6   02-23-2009 at 01:01:34 AM
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notherdude wrote :

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




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