Can boot from DVD when AHCI is enabled

Corbula · 16 Aug 2012 at 20:24

I've just received a new Crucial m4 ssd. I disconnected my current boot drive (a normal hdd) and set the sata to AHCI in the BIOS. When i try and boot from the DVD it says 'no emulation' and then says windows failed please insert windows disc.

Is this because the DVD drive doesn't work with AHCI? It's a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-215D

Are there any disadvantages to using IDE instead of AHCI?

Thanks

Corbula · 16 Aug 2012 at 21:40

Yes the DVD drive is the first boot device and only the new unformatted SSD is connected.

Corbula · 16 Aug 2012 at 21:52

It's an Abit IX38 QuadGT

Corbula · 16 Aug 2012 at 22:07

I only have the one, and it's a sata drive

Corbula · 17 Aug 2012 at 12:02

1) It was pre built from Overclockers. It came with Vista but i'm trying to install W7.

2) If the reason the DVD drive isn't working is because of the sata controller, then changing it after it's been installed would leave me with a working DVD drive.

Corbula · 17 Aug 2012 at 13:58

I connected the ssd using the sata cable that was connected to the current boot drive.

Corbula · 17 Aug 2012 at 16:59

I've managed to boot from the disc and install windows. I think it was the boot order. I selected sata cdrom as the first boot and it wasn't working. I then noticed there was another option called p1 pioneer. That's seems to have worked.

Corbula · 17 Aug 2012 at 20:02

Any guides anywhere for what to do after its installed? In other words optimization like turning off system restore and stuff to save space and turning off indexing and things?

Edit: two other things.

1. Looking under device manager at the hardware ids for the drive it says IDE\ although in the bios under sata controller it is ahci. So what is my drive actually using?

2. Under disk management it says that it's partitioned into 2 parts. one is C: the other is system reserved which is a 100mb. Is this right?