AHCI in XP Driving me NUTS!!

In the cold light of day, & after reading through all of your responses again, I'm wondering if I'm doing right with my continued desire to stick with Windoze XP :o

The biggest bug bear for me with Win 7 is having no Outlook Express :( & not having the knowledge to restore approx 1.5 Gbs of prior Outlook express emails into another new email client.

I'm now wondering if Incrediamail which I've seen & liked the look of. "I think" I must admit though, when I've installed Incredimail on XP I'm sure the the responsiveness of the system slows down

Has got a facility to do this for me?
Being very easy to use I currently make use of a free version of Inachis ebackup which backs ups and fully restores all of my existing Outlook Express emails & IE favourite too. Is there any alternative free S/W options that would / could convert my existing emails + IE Favs into another plain & simple Email client? :D being a big believer in the KISS philosophy, simple is the operative word

Any suggestions would be most gratefully received

Opps I'm sorry. :o

One more query.

If I do decide to install Win 7 tomorrow, at the onset do I have to enable AHCI in BIOS prior to the Win 7 OS installation?

Again suggestions would be most gratefully received :)

Cheers hondo
 
Move to Windows 7.

You can very easily move your email,favourates and all your settings from xp to windows 7
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/windows-easy-transfer
Tried it on my mums pc when I upgraded hers and it works flawlessy.

Essentially:
1) Download the 32bit xp client
2) run it and you essentially make a backup of your old xp settings favourates,emails etc.
3) back this up somewhere like a memory stick or external hdd or dvd
4) Install windows 7 and run the backup, job done


Edit: yes have ahci on before you install windows, that way windows 7 will install appropriate stuff during installation
 
Bry said:
Move to Windows 7.

You can very easily move your email,favourates and all your settings from xp to windows 7
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/windows-easy-transfer
Tried it on my mums pc when I upgraded hers and it works flawlessy.

Essentially:
1) Download the 32bit xp client
2) run it and you essentially make a backup of your old xp settings favourates,emails etc.
3) back this up somewhere like a memory stick or external hdd or dvd
4) Install windows 7 and run the backup, job done


Edit: yes have ahci on before you install windows, that way windows 7 will install appropriate stuff during installation
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Love the way people imply it's soooo easy :-
a) Cost
b) We all know it's numerous hours of effort to get back to where you were before. ie: All your programs and settings you've built up needing to be re-installed and reconfigured etc etc.

Any what for? Most people boot up, click an icon and the program runs. Who cares if it's Windows XP or Windows 7. For most people, most of the time, it makes no difference.
 
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you need to find a guide to enable ahci for xp,its a little more of a hassle but works fine once done,i used to have a win7/win xp dual boot and ahci worked fine on xp,i did the reg hack for xp though
 
If you like it, you like it.. but windows 7 is honestly excellent. There are a few annoying things like trying to be too user friendly, but you can change to 'classic' layouts if you prefer.

Just do the repair install, and as suggested try putting the drivers on when doing it :-)

Also.. did you know you can run a virtual windows xp client inside windows 7? That would give you access to XP based emails if you really needed them with minimum fuss, until you got enough emails in win 7 to just archive or ditch the old ones.

You can also dual boot and just shove xp on an old HDD.
 
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NeilFawcett said:
Love the way people imply it's soooo easy :-
a) Cost
b) We all know it's numerous hours of effort to get back to where you were before. ie: All your programs and settings you've built up needing to be re-installed and reconfigured etc etc.

Any what for? Most people boot up, click an icon and the program runs. Who cares if it's Windows XP or Windows 7. For most people, most of the time, it makes no difference.
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It is so easy when his primary concern was/is email and favourates
Cost is irrelevant as he was asking about how to migrate across and how easy it was. My answer was to those 2 points it has nothing to do with whether or not he should stay on xp but if he decides to go to 7 the best way to do it for him.
 
Scougar said:
If you like it, you like it.. but windows 7 is honestly excellent.
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I'm sure it is 'excellent'. But again, for most peope all they do is click a couple of icons on their desk top, and then run the applications... XP will do that basically just as well as Windows 7.

The only time to upgrade IMHO is if you're doing a fresh install and it makes sense. If you can live with your current OS, and it does the job you need it to then why spend money for nothing :)

I've got a mixture of XP, Vista and Windows 7, and for my average day to day use, there is really no difference... Click icon -> program opens :)


If our OP wants to spend £60-70 to upgrade and go thru the hassle, then fine... But if he doesn't, and XP will continue to work with his SSD, and suit his needs, then good luck to him for being wise enough to not waste money!
 
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IvanDobskey said:
Windows XP is a dinosaur in computing terms :p

It's about 11 years old now :eek: I have no idea why anyone with a decent PC would still be using it :confused:
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I'm using XP this very second... Be it on an older machine. But if it works what's the problem?

I turned this PC on, and XP booted up. I was then presented with a desktop, and clicked my Firefox icon.... And here I am...

If I had Windows 7, how would that be different? It wouldn't be different at all...


Again, if there's a hardware/software reason in itself, then maybe the OP needs to upgrade. But don't think that's the case at the moment!?


Now can I suggest the OP does not need, "your OS is rubbish," as it achieves nothing...
 
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Bry said:
Move to Windows 7.

You can very easily move your email,favourates and all your settings from xp to windows 7
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/windows-easy-transfer
Tried it on my mums pc when I upgraded hers and it works flawlessy.

Essentially:
1) Download the 32bit xp client
2) run it and you essentially make a backup of your old xp settings favourates, emails etc.
3) back this up somewhere like a memory stick or external hdd or dvd
4) Install windows 7 and run the backup, job done


Edit: yes have ahci on before you install windows, that way windows 7 will install appropriate stuff during installation
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Thanks for that Bri, what or which email client does the back go into? :confused:

From what I've seen, I didnt think Win7 comes with it's own built in email client. :confused:
 
hondo said:
Thanks for that Bri, what or which email client does the back go into? :confused:

From what I've seen, I didnt think Win7 comes with it's own built in email client. :confused:
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It doesn't by default, but Outlook comes with Office (which I kinda assume most people have... maybe thats just me :confused: ) but there are so many alternatives (Thunderbird and Windows Live Mail come to mind)
 
Well it's sorted Folks.. Win 7 installed, I can't find bu55er all I'm after but at least AHCI is running now. :)

I'll give Windows Live Mail a try. Maybe it's an age thing however, Outlook seems too cluttered up for me.

IMHO MS should never have dumped OE :(


Thank you very much for all the help folks :)
 
Could you post up another AS SSD screenshot, your original shot had the SSD not aligned properly, this was probably just due to XP but worth checking.
 
Broken Hope said:
Could you post up another AS SSD screenshot, your original shot had the SSD not aligned properly, this was probably just due to XP but worth checking.
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Yep, I'll just have to take a look at the rules first, I've forgotten what the Max size of a pic that will be allowed. :o
 
Broken Hope said:
Could you post up another AS SSD screenshot, your original shot had the SSD not aligned properly, this was probably just due to XP but worth checking.
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I'm sorry it's taken so long there seems to be an issue with PB.

May I ask pleade how you can tell from the pici that the drive appeared not to be aligned properly?

BTW I don't know why but on occasions it takes a while when I upload a pic for it to appear.

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BTW I should have asked, why is 31k is showing up as bad? I only picked the drive up from OCuk on Friday
 
hondo said:
BTW I should have asked, why is 31k is showing up as bad? I only picked the drive up from OCuk on Friday
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The 31K bad is the alignment being wrong, SSD's like to be aligned properly or it massively affects write performance, your 4K-64Thrd writes are way too slow, I'm guessing you let XP create the partition and didn't delete the partition and let Windows 7 create a new one when you installed.

It will probably be a pain to do it again but if I was you I'd delete all partitions off the drive and then let Windows 7 setup partition and quick format the drive and then reinstall Windows 7, should get your performance up a fair bit.

You also need to update the firmware of your drive, there's a link a bit further down the forum.

Just as a comparison, your drive should be scoring closer to this.

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Broken Hope said:
You also need to update the firmware of your drive, there's a link a bit further down the forum.
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Yep fine Broken Hope, I will re-install, it doesn't "seem" to take too long :D

Re the firmware :eek: shouldn't that already be up to date? The drive is only 3 days old, well to me :)

& is it difficult to do?
 
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