Yes. In general, you cannot swap freely between AHCI and IDE/ATA modes, as this can result in a no-boot situation. You can usually just swap it back and be back up and running, though. Interestingly, I have had machines (notably, our fleet of Dell Latitude D630's and E6400's under Vista and W7) where I COULD freely swap between the two--not sure what the difference is.
There are some steps you can take to make the change without reinstalling the OS. > -----Original Message----- > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin > Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 2:29 AM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] SSD new Toolbox > > 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. >
