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Yousuf Khan
Flightless Bird
On 08/10/2010 10:09 AM, Bob H wrote:
> Then I posted this:
> When Win7 threw the wobbly, as I said it went into repair mode and I let
> it do its thing. Then it took a few reboots and repairs to enable normal
> booting.
>
> I have just checked the registry entry which I changed previously from 0
> to 3, and it is or has changed back to 0 again, so maybe the repair mode
> did that. I honestly don't know how or what happened only what has
> happened.
>
>
> So you have now clarified the above situation , in that I should not
> have made any further changes to the registry setting.
> Now the registry setting is at 0 for AHCI mode should I wish to change
> back to that in the BIOS.
>
> Thanks
Yeah, a repair is kinda like a minor reinstallation of Windows. Just
like when you install Windows for the first time, the install disk
determines whether you are running on IDE or AHCI drives, and it locks
the registry setting down based on it.
Yousuf Khan
> Then I posted this:
> When Win7 threw the wobbly, as I said it went into repair mode and I let
> it do its thing. Then it took a few reboots and repairs to enable normal
> booting.
>
> I have just checked the registry entry which I changed previously from 0
> to 3, and it is or has changed back to 0 again, so maybe the repair mode
> did that. I honestly don't know how or what happened only what has
> happened.
>
>
> So you have now clarified the above situation , in that I should not
> have made any further changes to the registry setting.
> Now the registry setting is at 0 for AHCI mode should I wish to change
> back to that in the BIOS.
>
> Thanks
Yeah, a repair is kinda like a minor reinstallation of Windows. Just
like when you install Windows for the first time, the install disk
determines whether you are running on IDE or AHCI drives, and it locks
the registry setting down based on it.
Yousuf Khan