dual boot advice

[Tony Alfrey]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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. Â 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?
> 
> 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.



OK, thanks.  That sounds like I must /keep/ the same AHCI status in BIOS 
during the XP install and /after/ the XP install upon boot, although all 
drives are using the SATA controller.  Correct?


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