MY WEI-enabling AHCI

Hello thobel, welcome to Seven Forums!




Do you have AHCI enabled, here's a good tutorial on that subject at the link below.

AHCI : Enable in Windows 7 / Vista

thobel said:

Bare Foot Kid said:

Hello thobel, welcome to Seven Forums!




Do you have AHCI enabled, here's a good tutorial on that subject at the link below.

AHCI : Enable in Windows 7 / Vista

I just followed the instructions to enable it. I did not see the drivers being installed as shown in the screen shots.

Did you get the "re-start" prompt, like in the snip in the tutorial?

thobel said:

If their anyway to test and see if AHCI is running?

A quick way to see if your drives are running in AHCI is if you have the 'Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media' icon on the taskabr. If you do, right-click on that icon and your HDD's will show up as 'Ejectable Devices'

thobel said:

OK I do not have it showing on my task bar. I'm running a ASUS/Nvidia based mother board. I have raid enabled on the motherboard AHCI Enabled I have raid DISABLED on port 1 (where my hard drive is) the reg setting is changed and stuck. Any idea on what I may need to change?

Hello thobel.


Please start a new thread at the link below so we can get out of this thread about the Windows 7 WEI, ok.

Performance & Maintenance - Windows 7 Forums

thobel said:

OK I do not have it showing on my task bar. I'm running a ASUS/Nvidia based mother board. I have raid enabled on the motherboard AHCI Enabled I have raid DISABLED on port 1 (where my hard drive is) the reg setting is changed and stuck. Any idea on what I may need to change?

I have no RAID array, so don't have any RAID options enabled.

Depending on the layout, what is your SATA configured to?

For example mine is MAIN > Storage Configuration > configure SATA as = AHCI