SSD AHCI

[garabyte]

Hello,
On an ASUS sabertooth board running windows 7 is there a way to shift from IDE to ahci after the drive was setup as IDE?
Any help appreciated

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Yes, it can be done. Here is a link to a web page that explains how to do it:

http://www.windows7news.com/2010/05/25/how-to-enable-ahci-in-windows-7/

 

[sminlal]

This procedure should work:

1) Run the Registry Editor (regedit.exe)
2) Navigate to Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Msahci
3) Set the "Start" value to 0 (zero)
4) Navigate to Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Pciide
5) Set the "Start" value to 0 (zero)
6) Shut down
7) Start up again, but before Windows boots go into the BIOS configuration screens and change the disk mode to "AHCI". Save the new BIOS configuration and restart so that Windows boots.

When Windows starts, it should detect the change, load new disk drivers, and do one more reboot to start up with them.

 

[tecmo34]

Basically the same thing sminlal stated but is the article from Microsoft...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976