AHCI Mode - help?

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Ok, ever since i got my C2D set, which was last year some time i have thought its been sluggish some times, mainly on start up which now takes well over 2mins, also exploring my HDD's, it juse does not feel responsive. I have now noticed my HDD's have been running in IDE mode, i realise this after i have done a HDD bench mark, my Maxtor reading at 55mb/s and my Samsung (primary) reading at 4mb/s (LOL?)

Now im sure this is low, IDE speeds and not SATA1/2.

If i change to AHCI Mode i have to format my primary drive i belive. Is it just a case of changing the mode in the BIOS then re-installing. When it says while installing XP "Press F6 to instal sata" or what ever says can i still skip this and isntall the DS3 sata drivers in windows, as i dont have any sort of floppy drives.

Can anyone give me some guidence here?
 
Will i notice any difference? I am going to format probably tomorow and if its not going to make much difference i just install the DS3 sata drives after the installation and run it in IDE i suppose.

It just seems sluggish, start up time has increased LOADS, anything that could have coused this?
 
Yep there bothing useing the same controller, on the DS3 its the one situated on its own, not next to another controller.

This is my primary drive, according to everest its pretty slow eh?

hdd2rd7.jpg


This is my 2nd drive

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Now i know the drives arnt the best in the world, but in all fairness that maxtor one has been going for ages, its reliable.

Hope you can help me sort this out?

Cheers :)
 
Well the Gigabyte sata drivers are installed, so its just a case of setting it to AHCI mode, plugging it into the purple controller and booting. Hmm, i'll try this but i thnk ima still do a clean format.
 
Thinking about it, now i know the purple is Gigabyte it makes sense as i have never isntalled any windows matrix drivers or what ever, only the sata ones :) Think i will switch them over lol.
 
Now you have lost me :D

Basically when i install windows i miss the F6 bit, and when im in windows i install the SATA drivers that come on the CD. But im useing the yellow ports which i didnt know untill now are Intel. I'll format, do the same, change mode to ACHI and plug into the purple ports? :|
 
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Well i switched to the purple, boot up now takes seconds, everything is more responsive.

1 little niggle, running the HDD benchmark and it wasnt 4mb/s - it went up to the same as the other drive. There both around 50/60mb/s. Is this still slow? and it did BSOD on the benchmark :P Hopefully it wasnt nothing to serious.
 
Well it seems that BSOD was a 1 off - hasnt happened since.

And 60mb/s is ok? The primary one is SATA2 and thought it woudl be quicker.
 
Nope - i decided to forget about the AHCI.

I now have 3 HDDs, 1 which i thought was dead, wasnt :)

I now have 2 SATA 2 and 1 SATA HDDs.

I got 2 of the HDDs in the Gigabyte controller and are being seen as SATA but the Intel ones arnt. Are there any intel sata drivers i can install via XP to get them working properly?
 
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