I have a friends HP system I'm fixing for him. His hard drive died, totally inaccessible (750GB SATA 3 Seagate).
I ordered the recovery DVD and a new hard drive.
In BIOS, the SATA controller can be set to Raid, AHCI or IDE. My question is, which is the right one to use. It was set to Raid but during one of several attempts to use the Recovery partition, I switched that to AHCI as I see no point in setting it to Raid with only a single drive. Is this the best setting to use?
I ordered the recovery DVD and a new hard drive.
In BIOS, the SATA controller can be set to Raid, AHCI or IDE. My question is, which is the right one to use. It was set to Raid but during one of several attempts to use the Recovery partition, I switched that to AHCI as I see no point in setting it to Raid with only a single drive. Is this the best setting to use?
My Computer
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Lenovo IdeaCenter 450
- OS
- Windows 10 Pro X64
- CPU
- Intel Quad Core i7-4770 @ 3.4Ghz
- Memory
- 16.0GB PC3-12800 DDR3 SDRAM 1600 MHz
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel Integrated HD Graphics
- Sound Card
- Realtek HD Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- HP 22" LCD
- Screen Resolution
- 1680 x 1050
- Hard Drives
- 250GB Samsung EVO SATA-3 SSD
2TB Seagate ST2000DM001 SATA-2
1.5TB Seagate ST3150041AS SATA
- Keyboard
- Dell USB
- Mouse
- Lenovo USB
- Internet Speed
- Cable via Road Runner 3MB Upload, 30MB Download
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender, MBAM Pro, MBAE
- Browser
- Seamonkey
- Other Info
- UEFI/GPT
PLDS DVD-RW DH16AERSH
