Enable AHCI in Windows 8 and Windows 10 after Installation

ddelo · 19 Oct 2018

NavyLCDR said:

The question is, what do you show in Device Manager under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers (or possibly storage controllers)? If it is using an AHCI driver, that's what you have. If an IDE driver is listed there, then that is what you have. That would be the definitive answer, IMHO.

It is the definitive answer !!!

ddelo · 19 Oct 2018

magilla said:

Thanks, @ddelo, @brink, @Kbird. Appreciate the feedback and info from all three of you!

You're most welcome!

Just get a good driver (not the one proposed by Microsoft) from Fernando in the site @Kbird suggested and you're good to go!

magilla · 19 Oct 2018

NavyLCDR said:

The question is, what do you show in Device Manager under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers (or possibly storage controllers)? If it is using an AHCI driver, that's what you have. If an IDE driver is listed there, then that is what you have. That would be the definitive answer, IMHO.

Thanks @NavyLCDR - not ide ata listed, so think I’m good. Appreciate your input.

ddelo · 19 Oct 2018

magilla said:

Thanks @NavyLCDR - not ide ata listed, so think I’m good. Appreciate your input.

And a small usage advice, if I may.... The last few days there has been a change in TenForums..
Once you "Quote" someone, he/she gets notified that you did it. No need to mention him/her too (by adding @ before the username), as he/she gets two notifications for the same thing. One in the Mentions tab and another in the Quotes tab of his/her profile!… Cool ehh??

MuskieMedic · 07 Aug 2019

I've done countless clean installs and for some reason I completely forgot to change my BIOS setting to Secure Boot on my work computer yesterday when I clean installed WIN 10 Pro 64-bit to a new SSD drive that replaced my SATA that finally died (was hoping this would eventually happen). This PC is a HP Compaq Elite 8300 Mini Tower that much to my chagrin came loaded with WIN 7 Home Premium 64-bit configured with the SATA HDD in a Legacy configuration. Bottom line, your guide to make sure ACHI was enabled and to update the UEFI Firmware through WIN 10 Recovery at startup was precise and worked perfectly!!

Brink · 07 Aug 2019

MuskieMedic said:

I've done countless clean installs and for some reason I completely forgot to change my BIOS setting to Secure Boot on my work computer yesterday when I clean installed WIN 10 Pro 64-bit to a new SSD drive that replaced my SATA that finally died (was hoping this would eventually happen). This PC is a HP Compaq Elite 8300 Mini Tower that much to my chagrin came loaded with WIN 7 Home Premium 64-bit configured with the SATA HDD in a Legacy configuration. Bottom line, your guide to make sure ACHI was enabled and to update the UEFI Firmware through WIN 10 Recovery at startup was precise and worked perfectly!!

Hello MuskieMedic, and welcome to Ten Forums.

I'm glad the tutorial was able to help you out of your situation.

dave12cd · 23 May 2020

Hi, I followed the above instructions, but when I rebooted I got a "Missing Operating System" message . I went back into BIOS and changed back to IDE but still get the same message, and can go no further. What have I done wrong and how to I get my PC back up and running please?

After posting this I tried F12 to boot the machine, and when I selected the hard drive it worked, so I revisited the BIOS boot setups to move the hard drive to the top of the harddrive boot priority list and the PC is back up and running, though Windows did several "Automatic repairs. Now to try the conversion again!

Kbird · 23 May 2020

dave12cd said:

Hi, I followed the above instructions, but when I rebooted I got a "Missing Operating System" message . I went back into BIOS and changed back to IDE but still get the same message, and can go no further. What have I done wrong and how to I get my PC back up and running please?
After posting this I tried F12 to boot the machine, and when I selected the hard drive it worked, so I revisited the BIOS boot setups to move the hard drive to the top of the harddrive boot priority list and the PC is back up and running, though Windows did several "Automatic repairs. Now to try the conversion again!

sounds like you are losing the Boot Order is all on the SSD/HDDs , in Win10 it usually say Windows Boot manager for the 1st selection not the SSD or HDD it is on particularly if you are Dual booting OS's.

KB

FrankW · 23 May 2020

This brings me to my UEFI setting (BIOS Version/Date Insyde Corp. V1.16, 11/12/2019) SMBIOS 3.2, The SATA setting was set (by default) to "RST with Optane" although I don't have Optane memory (hardware), no SSD and only 1 SATA HDD. My laptop is Acer Aspire A515-54G and the Optane app came preinstalled but I added RST from Acer's support site later. I queried Acer community why Optane app is installed on my model without Optane hardware but no response yet.
Everything runs fine, fast booting time and no errors If I check Optane and RST control panels they both state that Optane is not working but my memory is good.

Enable AHCI in Windows 8 and Windows 10 after Installation-optane.png

I wonder to continue with these Intel apps or switch to AHCI SATA setting as per this tutorial and uninstall Optane and RST when I tried to uninstall RST before I got a warning (from Intel?) that not all drivers could be uninstalled and my HDD may not function properly, something about Raid and AHCI?
Appreciate any advice.
Frank

Brink · 23 May 2020

Hello @FrankW,

If you don't have Optane, then it would be best to switch to AHCI, and uninstall the Intel app afterwards.

Enable AHCI in Windows 8 and Windows 10 after Installation

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