AHCI : Enable in Windows 7 / Vista

Bare Foot Kid said:

dsosb said:

How do I know if this worked? I didn't get the window showing the drivers updating. I only got the message that driver updating was complete.

Hello dsosb, welcome to Seven Forums!


If you got this it is complete.

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Thanks very much! It worked. I appreciate your help.

- cool, Bare Foot..
- had a scare when my Bloodrage BIOS hicupped, but staggering the drive initialisation via the BIOS AHCI settings cured that..

- repo pointage coming your way..

golem said:

Happily I can say I am now typing this from the computer we "were" working on. Unfortunately your "So others (and I) can learn..." in your sig will not benefit. I have no Idea what I did to get her back from the dead. All I did do was delve back into BIOS, open and view all the pertinent parameters (no changes made), close and save. Upon the next reboot it opened smoothly all the way to Windows 7. I took a moment to revert back to my restore point and then physically checked the reg was back to normal (which it is) so for now all is well. Think I'll just skip AHCI for now.

I had pretty much same issues golem had trying to turn on AHCI. I only have 1 HD (Sata), 1 DvD drive (Sata) and a 9in1 reader connected via onboard USB port. no IDE drives not anything else.

It would see the HD when booting up then give me error no bootable partition in table

I set it back to IDE mode in BIOS but it was still giving same error. Couldn't figure out how to get the LKGC screen up for my gigabyte ud4 board so just booted into BIOS while googling for a way from other computer; probably a good 15 minutes.

Never did find a way to get to the LKGC screen, but booted to the Boot Menu and selected to boot from the HD from there and windows decided it'd play nice.

Once into windows I restored to my preAHCI restore point and figure I'll just skip enabling this for now.

BFK - searched high and low how to do this, and found all the non-working confusing ones (including needing .sys files). I can't believe how simple this is, and thought to myself, surely it can't be this easy... it worked like a charm. Thanks for sharing your expertise. First post here, and you get it.