Soldato
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- 6 Sep 2005
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Hi everyone
After my disaster of a day (SDD died) I'm going back to a mechanical HDD as a boot drive.
It's occurred to me that as I'm reinstalling Windows I could set the drive up in ACHI mode instead of IDE.
I have six other HDDs in the computer already which were in use in the IDE system and the motherboard is a Gigabyte EX58-UD5.
If I have just the one new boot HDD plugged in as I install Windows on ACHI can I just plug the other drives back in and they will work normally (no problems / data loss etc), or do I need to do something with them?
Or do I just need to leave them in IDE mode?
Thanks...I hope this will be the last of my computer woes and frenzied question asking for the next few months at least.
After my disaster of a day (SDD died) I'm going back to a mechanical HDD as a boot drive.
It's occurred to me that as I'm reinstalling Windows I could set the drive up in ACHI mode instead of IDE.
I have six other HDDs in the computer already which were in use in the IDE system and the motherboard is a Gigabyte EX58-UD5.
If I have just the one new boot HDD plugged in as I install Windows on ACHI can I just plug the other drives back in and they will work normally (no problems / data loss etc), or do I need to do something with them?
Or do I just need to leave them in IDE mode?
Thanks...I hope this will be the last of my computer woes and frenzied question asking for the next few months at least.
