SSD boot drive setup -- switching to ACHI

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SSD boot drive setup -- switching to ACHI

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Post by jagrime2 » Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:42 pm

I am planning on reinstalling Win 7 this weekend on a 64GB SSD drive to operate as a boot drive. In doing research it seems that with this new install I should switch over to ACHI from IDE. I haven't seen any comments about there being an issue with storage drives but I want to make sure that switching to ACHI won't effect my 2-2TB storage drives. I don't want to get stuck having to format my drives as I don't have enough backup for all the data on these drive (I may have to eliminate my wifes romantic comedy movie collection).

Also any other tips in for the conversion to a boot drive would be helpul.
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Post by STC » Fri Jul 29, 2011 2:08 am

Your 2TBs will be fine. Just flick over the bios to ACHI and install Windows, it will take care of the rest.
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Post by jagrime2 » Mon Aug 01, 2011 4:39 pm

I disconnected all the storage drives during Windows install and plugged everything back in once I got the SSD up and running. Now I'm enjoying the more responsive menus/guide data.

Fingers crossed everything holds up well.
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