Hard drive has 5 parts to it in device manager

Wait I am looking for the reg tweak now.

Here ya go. I think this is the right one..>

AHCI : Enable in Windows 7 / Vista

It is more easy than you think and save ya lots of time. I am still confused tho. Is this system running now the os drive is showing but the other drive is not? A format on the second drive should fix that.

AHCI is not really needed but is best and is for sata drives and so they run at their fastest speeds. If this system is running and you already have your second drive running. If you do want ahci support just do the reg tweak.

I think I would turn off my system first and disconnect power and sata cable to my second drive. then reboot and do reg tweak or if going to reinstall your os- just use 1 drive- do not connect the other drive until w7 is good to go and is running and what ever changes you are trying to make to it..

I do not know what to say or think now. Your first post said nothing about this being a lap top- I did not look at your system info either. I do not know this info is good for you or not.. Had I known it was a lap top I might not have tried to help- being I know nothing about them..

So I guess your second drive is an external drive [usb maybe]? If plugged in it should be same to format it as if it was an internal drive.

You can skip some info I posted. I did not know this is a lap top..

I hope you get it going like you need or want. Take care..

Those channels are not your hard drive, it is controllers:

IDE/ATA Channels and Resource Usage

ezeht said:

I do not know what to say or think now. Your first post said nothing about this being a lap top- I did not look at your system info either. I do not know this info is good for you or not.. Had I known it was a lap top I might not have tried to help- being I know nothing about them..

it's much appreciated your answers mate basically i have only one hard drive intalled and windows 7 is running off it. What you could help me with is if i don't reinstall and format the hard drive will the hard drive cause problems if i don't format it please answer asap as it takes a while to get everything back on my laptop.

The os install will prompt you to partition and format during install. If it is running it is already done- unless you made it partition more than 1x?

So if it is running and has 1 partition- or you know the proper partition with the os on it- I think the reg tweak will be faster and should give ya no problems.. But if you have lil stuff programs etc on the os drive you can do a fresh os install that is up to you but will take longer..

I am not sure how this reg tweak will work if you have multi partitions on one drive. I guess the info for the reg tweak explains such things- I did not read it all?

Note in my second photo- system reserve is not really thought of as a second partition- My drive is set up as 1 partition- windows shows it like that- not that I have or on purpose set it up for 2 partitions..

The prob I was talking about before was- if you already installed the os and is in ide mode- you can not just change the bios to ahci and it work- It will not boot and say it can not find the drive or say the boot something or another is messed up.. You have to do it right- either before os install or follow the instructions for the reg tweak.. But even if you do mess up- it will not hurt the drive- you just need to reinstall the os and format and the propoer mode you want- ide or ahci..

seekermeister said:

Those channels are not your hard drive, it is controllers:

IDE/ATA Channels and Resource Usage

Exactly +1



BTW If I wasn't using AHCI in the BIOS I would also have more then two ATA channels shown.

Ya some of these other folks can better help ya. I said in my first post unless I am wrong- and can be.

Just trying to be helpful is all. You will get it figured out. I hope so any way..

I have just done reinstall and formatted my hard drive and its the same lol be up all night reinstalling my progams lol

hollyoaks777 said:

I have just done reinstall and formatted my hard drive and its the same lol be up all night reinstalling my progams lol

If I may make a suggestion? In an effort to avoid similar problems in the future, once you have your 1545 configured the way you want with all programs, apps, etc installed, invest in a new external hard drive. Here in the Colonies they're selling 2TB drives for under $100 US.

Seagate ST320005EXA101 2TB Expansion External Drive - 2TB, USB 2.0 at TigerDirect.com

Make a system image of your computer and store it on the external HD. Leave the original system image intact and make a new image every week or so. If you ever have to reinstall everything again, restore from the system image of your choice and be back online in about 30 minutes. The original image can be your "master clean install" to avoid the dreaded up-all-night headache. :) You can use the built-in 7 backup utility or the free Macrium Reflect or Paragon. There are others (paid and free) but these are the ones I've used.

Backup Complete Computer - Create an Image Backup

Imaging with free Macrium

Free Backup Software: Paragon Backup & Recovery (Advanced) Free Edition - Overview