dual boot advice

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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(?).
>>
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>
> Does that mean that I /disable/ it to install XP on a SATA drive and
> then /enable/ after XP is installed?

Yes, very much so.  You can't switch the controller type after any OS
is installed, or the OS will no longer boot.  This applies to both
Windows & Linux.