My operation system is XP and was installed in IDE mode. Can I change my SATA mode to AHCI mode?
LastUpdate : Wed, 01 Oct 2014
Answer
XP will fail to boot after changing IDE mode to AHCI mode because XP needs to load AHCI driver in AHCI mode which is not needed in IDE mode. Thus, you need to reinstall XP if you want to change from IDE to AHCI mode.
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