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I just got done building a computer.

It is the first computer I ever built with SATA hard drives and a SATA DVD drive.

Everytime I booted the computer my Gigabyte MOBO would post a message

SATA driving running in IDE mode AHCI
Press 'Y' if you want the BIOs to run in SATA mode.

After seeing the message a few times I thought it would speed up DVD drive so I answered Yes.

After I did that the machine failed to boot. It keeps giving me the option to go to safe mode.

Who has SATA Drives?
Have you ever received a message like this?
How do I fix this?

It keeps asking me to insert the windows CD to recover.


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You should go to BIOS and set your SATA back to IDE mode. Find any information regarding SATA mode or anything like that on your BIOS. Otherwise you should recover Windows and supply the SATA/AHCI driver for your drive. I don't see any difference between IDE mode and SATA mode, unless you want to use additional feature like hotswap and NCQ thing.

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You want to be in SATA mode it's faster.

Check your boot order in bios. Make sure the Primary is the HD.


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