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Coming from XP, enable AHCI for SATA drives?
Hi all, I searched and was unable to find this specific question answered.
I'm coming from win XP and I've got 3 SATA drives currently operating in IDE mode. I am just about to move to Win7 Pro and I was considering setting the motherboard to recognize the drives as AHCI. I am going to reformat one drive completely for the OS drive.
My questions are:
1. Will this negatively affect my other two storage drives because they had previously been running in IDE mode?
2. Is there a way to determine whether or not my drives support AHCI at all? (They're all SATA drives bought in the last 4 years.)
3. I intend to run XP mode, will AHCI mode pose any problems for this?
Thanks for the help, I've just discovered this forum and it looks like a fantastic resource.