Iam rebuilding my system using a Q6600 cpu on a Asus P5Q SE Plus motherboard its a intel P45 chipset. It supports AHCI. I want to use AHCI because i also bought a Intel X25-M (80 gig) solid state drive, installing Win 7 64 bit. The SSD drive will be the C drive with OS and programs installed on it.
Question if i set the BIOS to AHCI for the serial control will my DVD and my 4 other regular hard drives which are all serial type which have alot of files on from my current win XP 32 bit work correctly or at all? I want to be able to acess files on older hard drive. Have like 400 gig worth of photos and things like that.
I dont want to install Win 7 onto SSD drive and then connect my other hard drives and find out i cant access them because of the AHCI setting. If this happens i will have to redo the install of the OS over again with IDE for the serial setting in bios. I suppose if the AHCI setting makes my DVD drive unreadable i guess i wont get to far as i wont be installing anything then.
Oh yea reason i want to use AHCI is so TRIM will work automaticly once intel gets the firmware working corectly.
Question if i set the BIOS to AHCI for the serial control will my DVD and my 4 other regular hard drives which are all serial type which have alot of files on from my current win XP 32 bit work correctly or at all? I want to be able to acess files on older hard drive. Have like 400 gig worth of photos and things like that.
I dont want to install Win 7 onto SSD drive and then connect my other hard drives and find out i cant access them because of the AHCI setting. If this happens i will have to redo the install of the OS over again with IDE for the serial setting in bios. I suppose if the AHCI setting makes my DVD drive unreadable i guess i wont get to far as i wont be installing anything then.
Oh yea reason i want to use AHCI is so TRIM will work automaticly once intel gets the firmware working corectly.
