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Old 12-10-2008, 08:50 PM   #62 (permalink)
sergiommms
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How about... "How to enable AHCI/RAID mode without reinstalling windows with ICH7R"?

Hi

I was looking to add a RAID1 set of two 500GB HDD to my preexisting installation, keeping the original HDD as the OS/... base, and the new HDDs as storage ones.

I have the IDE set to IDE in the BIOS, so whenever I try to boot with AHCI/RAID setting intead of IDE, I keep getting the BSOD...

At Windows level (XP Pro SP2), I canīt install the Intel Matrix Storage because apparently the system is not compatible/does not meet the requirements - meaning, unless I change the IDE setting to AHCI/RAID... I will never get to install this, right? ...but.... since I canīt change that BIOS setting without getting a BSOD, I will never ever get it done right? ...unless I reinstall the OS... which Iīm not inclined to do, really...

So... does this solution for the ICH8R work with the ICH7R? How? Is everything similar or is there any specification to the process?

Many thanks in advance!

Sergio
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