dual boot advice

Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey at earthlink.net
Tue Jan 31 12:24:05 PST 2012


Man-wai Chang wrote:
>> Not sure about in a dual booting situation, but I've always just disable the AHCI or set it to Legacy mode in the BIOS and have been able to boot XP fine.  YMMV.
> 
> You should enable AHCI in XP then change the BIOS settings from IDE to
> AHCI. AHCI has some good features, like NCQ and TRIM(?).
> 


Does that mean that I /disable/ it to install XP on a SATA drive and 
then /enable/ after XP is installed?



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