AHCI AFTER Win7 INSTALL?!

[EliteRetard]

Im pretty certain I saw a way to do this, but Im having a hard time finding it.

I was trying to email somebody through building a computer. It went mostly right, they enabled AHCI...but only for the Intel SATA ports, they ended up connecting and installing windows on a marvel controller wich is set to IDE mode. We need to swap the SSD with Win7 to an Intel 6Gb/s SATA port...but if windows was installed on an IDE port I don't think we can just swap plugs. So besides swaping and reinstalling is there a way to make this work (I assume yes)?

 

[Annon2255]

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/content.php?286-Change-from-IDE-to-AHCI-after-Installation

I'd assume you'd change this, shut down, swap ports, boot up and you should be fine.

 

[Jman13]

^^^ Yup. Just do that registry change, reboot, select AHCI in BIOS before going back into windows, and the AHCI drivers will install when you go back into Windows.

 

[Termie]

Microsoft even automates it for you:

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

 

[EliteRetard]

Thanks...I had a good feeling I saw this somewhere, but search was failing me.

 

[Pinecone-sw]

A question, what happens if you go the Registry Edit (or run the MS utility) and then NOT run AHCI?

I assume that the driver will be enabled, but just not used?

 

[kbp]

If you do the "reg hack" then go to reboot and do not change the bios to AHCI it will not boot into windows.