| Re: How to enable AHCI/RAID mode without reinstalling windows (P35/ICH9/ICH9R)
Yet Another Update (very sorry about making this thread look like my personal blog):
Success!
I've been reading so many forums, threads, posts, FAQs, articles, bug reports and whatnot that I just now noticed that I haven't said anything about hardware except the controller being an ICH9R. My MB is an ASUS P5E. I updated from BIOS 605 to 903 just now and Vista booted! With my RAID! I was looking at the disks in Gentoo and I figured that the 100th boot or so might be the lucky one.
I'm not 100% sure that enabling AHCI didn't push things forward though. It enabled me to install the driver pack from Intel yesterday.
Anyway. Thanks again for a great thread and a lot of information on how to attack my problem. Now looking at a 0.7 TB partition being formatted. Next up is mirrioring my old 160 GB Seagates and trying to move Vista without having to reinstall. Bet it will be fun. |