Change SATA disks to be managed by XP as IDE to AHCI.

I have a system with XP SP3 that I originally installed XP using SATA drives in IDE mode.  I don't have the necessary drivers.  Now, I would like to change to take advantage of all the features SATA AHCI.  Can I use Windows XP repair and use the F6 option to install drivers without changing the rest of the Windows installation and without losing any data that is in a second partition on the same drive. That the drive has two partitions, one with Windows installed in and with the data.

install the driver in normal mode (not safe mode), you won't lose data on another drive

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