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I would really appreciate some advice before I embark on a repair install. I have an Asus IP35 Pro motherboard which is quad boot 
. It didn't start out that was it was dual boot Win7 Ultimate 64bit and XP Professional 32 bit. Just over a year ago I installed a Samsung SSD and cloned the two OS-s from hard drive to the SSD. I therefore have Win7 and Win XP on the SSD and Win7 and XP on the hard drive.
Although I don't use both versions of XP it is actually handy for testing new applications on the hard drive before I change my configuration on the SSD. Anyhow I aligned the SSD partitions using Easeus software, but they are still configured for IDE rather than AHCI so I am not getting the best out of the SSD.
I am aware of the registry mod to enable AHCI so that when I reboot I can enable AHCI in the bios, however I am not sure what this will do to the two OS's on the hard drive. I assume changing from IDE to AHCI changes all the SATA controllers not just the one containing the SSD?
Secondly I have a windows update issue on the Win7 install on the SSD which I cannot resolve. I have tried everything I can find on the internet including changing all the file permissions using SubInAcl but without success. I have now come to the decision I have got to do a repair install and I am concerned this might change the alignment and boot manager again.
Any advice would be gladly received.
Fozzie
. It didn't start out that was it was dual boot Win7 Ultimate 64bit and XP Professional 32 bit. Just over a year ago I installed a Samsung SSD and cloned the two OS-s from hard drive to the SSD. I therefore have Win7 and Win XP on the SSD and Win7 and XP on the hard drive. Although I don't use both versions of XP it is actually handy for testing new applications on the hard drive before I change my configuration on the SSD. Anyhow I aligned the SSD partitions using Easeus software, but they are still configured for IDE rather than AHCI so I am not getting the best out of the SSD.
I am aware of the registry mod to enable AHCI so that when I reboot I can enable AHCI in the bios, however I am not sure what this will do to the two OS's on the hard drive. I assume changing from IDE to AHCI changes all the SATA controllers not just the one containing the SSD?
Secondly I have a windows update issue on the Win7 install on the SSD which I cannot resolve. I have tried everything I can find on the internet including changing all the file permissions using SubInAcl but without success. I have now come to the decision I have got to do a repair install and I am concerned this might change the alignment and boot manager again.
Any advice would be gladly received.
Fozzie