Greeting.\u00a0\u00a0 I ran across this the other day and immediately thought of this website.\u00a0 Its one of those things that I will use now, then forget about and in six months to a years time when I need it again, it’ll be gone.<\/p>\n
I hadn’t bothered to use the AHCI drivers when I installed Vista a while ago, but I’ve been hearing more and more how its a good thing (as long as your hardware supports it), or more to the point, the NCQ is a good thing.<\/p>\n
Some time in the past, I tried to get XP to switch to AHCI after install but never had any luck; there are instructions out there and I don’t doubt they work for most people, but I either had some sort of incompatible hardware or pebkac (problem exists between keyboard and chair) going on because it just wasn’t meant to be.\u00a0 After that incident I’ve been a bit leery of AHCI.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I decided to try it all again and this time it was remarkably easy to do.\u00a0 Just a simple registry tweak, reboot and change your SATA controller to AHCI in the BIOS and that’s it.\u00a0 I was reasonably impressed that it went so smoothly.\u00a0 I”m still waiting for some catastrophic data corruption; I’ll let you know if that ever happens.<\/p>\n
I’d rate this a 3 on the difficulty scale, and a 6 on the potential bad idea meter.<\/p>\n
Instructions:<\/p>\n
That’s it.<\/p>\n
Reference (from Microsoft):<\/p>\n