It is a Gigabyte P35-DS4, Revision 2.0. It's a fairly old mobo, now.
Award Bios F14, recently updated.
Yeah, not much said about it. Pretty scary that one setting like this
can render a system unbootable...
At least Windows Backup & Restore worked in this instance...it was truly
lovely to be back up so quickly.
Given that the SSD is only 160 GB, it actually makes sense to make a
larger image, in this age of mutli-terrabyte drives. I just need to get
the email folders off the boot drive.
On 1/7/2010 9:45 PM, Rick Glazier wrote:
Wow, scary was not stong enough a word in your case.
At least you were ready for trouble.
What MB, and/or whos BIOS?
I think I've seen that setting in my new Intel MBs, but never looked
it up...
Is that something "they" need to explain better, or...
Rick Glazier
From: "Anthony Q. Martin"
boy...
I got my butt burned on this one.
I went into the bios and enabled RAID/AHCI, picking only AHCI.
Well, after doing that I could no longer get the system to boot.
Could not repair.
Had to restore the fresh image I made this morning.
Only had Win764, updates, Firefox, AVG, Acrobat Reader, Windows Live
in that image.
However, one smart thing I did is was to move all of my
C:\Users\Anthony data folders over to the D: drive. I had copied all
of my backed up data (which it took me days to get backed up) back to
it earlier today. That took hours. Fortunately, aFter I restored the
image that had the user files moved over to the SSD, when I got
booted up again all my stuff was in the right place. No more coping
needed as everything on the D drive was still here and the image
restore pointed to all the right places. So I reinstalled Thunderbird
and copied all my email folders back (I still need to move the data
folder off the C drive to simplify this part). Now to install a few
more apps and I'll be fully back to where I was.
Big plus to making a small image and keeping your data on a separate
partition. Saves major time.
On 1/7/2010 3:24 PM, Rick Glazier wrote:
I don't have them.
I'd Google
"Microsoft AHCI storage driver"
unless that is what your last line said.
Some of the older hits (into the Intel site)on the subject are a
little scary.
(Seems like it was a VERY rocky road in Nov 2009...)
Seems like you really don't want old hardware? or old support.
Rick Glazier
From: "Anthony Q. Martin"
I was reading the white paper on Intel's SSD Optimizer. IN there
it says that if you're using Windows 7 and Microsoft AHCI storage
driver, then the OS will contain native support support to excute
the ATA Data set Management command on the Intel SSD and no user
interaction is required. However, if you're using Intel Matrix
Storage manager with Win7, then you do need the tools. Now, I
never installed any Matrix Storage manager...and I can't see
evidence of it on the device manager.
So, am I good?
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