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| Thread ID: 136636 | 2014-03-24 23:52:00 | IDE vs AHCI | bk T (215) | Press F1 |
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| 1371253 | 2014-04-20 02:07:00 | Found this site (www.ithinkdiff.com) with the following instructions to change from IDE to AHCI: " ... an easier version for Windows 8 is below which seems to work for everyone. (Thanks Marcel!) 1. In search, write cmd, right click it and run it in administrator mode. 2. Type the following command to enable SafeMode boot: bcdedit /set {current} safeboot minimal 3. Restart the computer and boot to the system BIOS. This is normally done by by pressing the delete key during system boot. 4. Update the ATA Drive setting in the BIOS from ATA Mode to AHCI Mode. Save the setting and restart your computer to boot into Windows. 5. Windows will boot in SafeMode as per step 2. 6. Open the command prompt again by following step 1 and run the following command to remove the the SafeMode boot option: bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot 7. Restart the computer and boot normally." Do you guys think that the above method will work? What are the risks? |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1371254 | 2014-04-20 05:20:00 | no real risks, if it fails just go back to IDE mode. well there's always SOME risk but it's pretty minimal. I think it works, windows 8 is a little better in that respect it just loads the driver in safeboot mode whereas 7 and earlier needed some registry changes. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1371255 | 2014-04-20 06:00:00 | Thanks, dugimodo. Do you think that the commands "bcdedit /set {current} safeboot minimal" and "bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot" correct, especially the 2nd deleting safemode command? It's OK if the first command isn't correct, it will not boot to safemode, but if the 2nd command is NOT correct, I may have problem in booting to normal mode! |
bk T (215) | ||
| 1371256 | 2014-04-20 09:40:00 | I'm pretty sure I used that exact site when I cloned a new hdd and swapped it into my media PC. It's an old sff Dell and had an 80G drive in IDE mode which I upgraded to a 1TB hybrid drive and swapped to AHCI. Was dead easy from memory, think I even copy pasted the commands into a text file and printed it out. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1371257 | 2014-04-20 10:00:00 | I certainly didn't mess with bcedit when I changed mine. Why mess with it if it isn't necessary? | linw (53) | ||
| 1371258 | 2014-04-20 11:40:00 | Safer than messing with the registry, and it's just an easy way to get into safe mode, I believe there are other ways. | dugimodo (138) | ||
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