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Unread 08-19-2009, 02:13 PM
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Now you have all the drive available after the deletion of the partitions. Very good. Now you will put the drive back into the Aspire 6530 and begin with the XP install process. But what's this? The installed doesn't even see a drive? That's because the motherboard uses a raid type controller for the SATA interface of course. There is a software driver that needs to be integrated into the XP install disc and this can be done but what a pain in the butt. Everyone knows that this will take a lot of time and another program to do so. There are even a couple blogs that go through the WHOLE process and it is long. I have done it before for other reasons.



Alas, all of this can be avoided... how? Well you can override the AHCI SATA functionality and use standard IDE confg SATA. Just load up the BIOS and you will see it as an available setting. So what's the difference between AHCI and not using it? You will find tons of info on this subject and it just is applicable to hot-swap situations and high speed data transfer (so I've read from a few extremely scientific peoples who have measured system performance values). None of this will effect 99.9% of us. It's a non-issue and definitely not worth the hassle.

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