SSD upgrade problem AHCI mode

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• ENVY of HP dv6-7246us SSD Upgrade, problem Windows 7 installation with boot from a usb/dvd drive.

  Hi all

  I recently bought the dv6-7246us and have updated for one SSD HARD drive. The problem I have now is I can't boot from usb or dvd drive that contains the Windows 7installation. Initially, this laptop has a HDD with Windows 8. I changed the boot order to boot from the USB drive and the CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive several times and have still no chance to start to the top of the installation. Is there a solution to this problem?

  Thank you

  Robert

  Hi, Robert:

  Go you into the BIOS and change in legacy Mode?

  I think that you need to do in order to boot from another device other than the hard drive.

• Compaq Presario CQ60-409SA: SSD upgrade problem

  Hello

  I just replaced my HARD drive with a new 120 GB SSD 11 Extreme Sandisk.

  Everything went well without problems and much faster search time, etc...

  The problem I have is that when I start the laptop from the cold, IE turn it on to use the SSD is not recognized and I just get a black screen with cursor top left of flashing, but if I press on Ctrl-Alt-Del, the system restarts then boots in windows without problem.

  I want to know if I can access BIOS Advanced Options, if I press F10 at startup I get only Options as the starting order of change and not more advanced Option to change the parameters of training, etc. and F2 does not work Diagnostics for the SDS.

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  Concerning

  Hi Hüffer,

  The SSD was visible on the Windows installation disc, but after I installed the AHCI drivers during the option to load drivers installation succeeded and starts as it should.

  Kind regards

  Mike

• Samsung SSD upgrade problems

  When I try to erase the SSD drive and format it for Mac the procedure fails:

  I get: dismount disc, cannot write to the last block of the unit, failed...

  I have a MBP end 2011 with El Captan freshly installed and the SSD is Samsung 850 Pro 512 GB.

  I've seen a number of problems with the Samsung SSD on these forums.  My best advice is to contact the technical support of Samsung.  Unfortunately, some users responded that the support of Samsung was not very friendly.

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• Ensuring that my SSD boot drive is set to AHCI mode

  Hello

  To make a needed firmware update on my newly installed SATA3 instructions (6 GB/s) SSD, the manufacturer said that Windows 7 should run in AHCI mode. I'd appreciate if someone would answer the following questions:

  Q1 - How to determine if Windows 7 is running in AHCI mode? ( KB922976 apply?)

  Q2 - in the BIOS, the page where the cottage the SATA2 ports (3 Gbps) and where my CD/DVD drive is connected currently shows under Storage Configuration mode is set an 'Enhanced' and SATA before as 'IDE' not 'AHCI '. My SSD does not appear on this page, so is it relevant?

  Q3 - in the BIOS, under "Onboard Devices Configuration", the Marvell Storage Contrller is set to "IDE Mode" (the other options are 'AHCI' and 'Disabled') and the 'Marvell Boot Room' is set to 'Auto '. I suspect that this controller is one of my SSD. Is this relevant and if so, do I just put it mode 'IDE' to 'AHCI '?

  Ultinate of Windows 7 SP1 (64-bit)

  Motherboard - Asus P & P55D-E

  -Boot disk Kingston HyperX 240 GB SSD attached to the gray SATA3 port on the motherboard.

  Thank you

  Hello

  I am pleased that you can enter the world of the AHCI.
  -J' have only changed the first two entries without the need for the second. So I can't tell if this is important or not. It seems not so much for me.
  -You're good to go with the update of the firmware. It's a good thing that your reader can be upgraded to Windows. My OCZ SSD requires a boot for flashing CD.
  -In my case, I had set my IDE DVD drive because it would not work in AHCI. Have you tried to use it? If you have any problems, leave as is.
  Carlos

• Cannot set in AHCI mode for disc SSD NB300

  Hello

  I have a Toshiba NB300 netbook, running Windows 8 Pro 32 bit, very happy with it!
  I have a Corsair 3 112 GB Force SSD drive is installed, and everything seems to work fine!

  Read on the SSDS, I see that a better performance for executing the SSD in AHCI mode.
  So I went to menu configuration of startup and changed compatibility in AHCI mode.
  I actually tried a few times, always with the same result, failure!

  When the system is trying to start I get a message saying that there was a problem and that
  the system is trying to gather information.

  The only solution is to go back in the program installation and handed to the compatibility mode.

  The BIOS is up to date, and I just don't see any way to solve the problem.
  I really want to get best performance with this net book as possible.
  I have a screenshot of the details of Speccy SSD drive, but I don't see a way of fixing?

  If anyone can advise me on how to get mounted AHCI mode and go that I would be really grateful!

  Thank you

  Chris

  Unfortunately on this forum we don t have reports on the use of the DSS on NBs I have NB520 and I would use the SSD for, but so far I didn't find the right.

  As far as I know by default BIOS is set to AHCI mode. What operating system you have installed? The original that you got with your laptop or your own version? Have you installed the s Intel Storage Manager of the Toshiba download page?

• activate the AHCI mode on Envy Dv7 - 7398ca with SSD

  Year old i7 envy Dv7 - 7398ca notebook with SSD Samsung 840 Pro x 256.  Windows 8.1

  I've updated to the SSD shortly after I purchsed the laptop.

  No problem except the Samsung SSD Wizard software keeps tagging me as AHCI mode is disabled and must be enabled and I do not see it in the BIOS.

  Or I see anything that relates in the device as IDE Manager or other.

  It seems that the SSD is optimizing not itself based on the fact that it considers that AHCI is disabled.

  I apologize for the issue being this topic seems to be beaten to death over time, but I do not see what relates to this model or similar.

  Thanks for all the ideas.

  The system is set to ahci or RAID mode. You can tell that by opening the Device Manager and look at the storage controllers. Anyway it is optimized for SSDS and TRIM is activated. You can simply remove the program from Samsung and rest assured that your SSD is optimized.

• Satellite L300D-11V: can I run SSD in AHCI mode?

  Hello

  I just installed a SSD and Win7 64 bit on a laptop L300D-11V.

  Anyone know if it is possible to run in AHCI mode as I don't see the option in the BIOS?

  I saw there is a BIOS update but if it is not updated to enable the AHCI I would rather not bother...

  Hello

  I assume that it should be possible to use the SSD with AHCI mode.

  The AHCI means that the SSD or HARD disk would go with SATA performance but for that you need to install the SATA driver first.
  If SATA is set in compatible mode, then a SATA driver is not necessary to install the Windows operating system.
  Simply said;
  -n t need SATA drivers in compatibility mode
  -you need SATA drivers in AHCI mode

  The SATA drivers are part of the Intel Storage Manager and you can download this European driver of Toshiba or Intel page

• Is it possible to move my SSD in AHCI mode without having to reinstall Windows 7?

  Before installing Windows 7, I entered the BIOS and changed my AHCI Mode IDE SDS for a reason any and I forgot to switch back. Now, I want to put in AHCI mode because it says online that AHCI mode could improve SDD/HDD performance considerably, compared to IDE mode. However, if the mode is enabled in AHCI mode, my Windows 7 will not able to start, so I continue to choose the IDE for my SDS mode.

  Is it possible to move my SSD in AHCI mode without having to reinstall Windows 7? Or is it really useful to change the return method? I have no hard drives except an SSD in my computer.

  See how you go with the options below-

  https://support.Microsoft.com/kb/922976?WA=wsignin1.0

  Be sure that set you the BIOS to AHCI again on restart.

• SSD upgrade/migrate inside 23 tilt of HP Envy TouchSmart?

  (model: 23-k001hk all-in-One)

  Hello all - asking for suggestions advice from wise and kind people on the best way - and operating instructions - for upgrading the speed of my current hdisk 1 TB + SSD 16 GB cache scheme of HP storage by one of these itineraries:

  1) upgrade the disk installed cache 16 GB SSD mSATA disk (limit Intel RST) 64 GB mSATA

  Why: I update regularly a slap (10-15GB) of data from the Agency.

  so given that the daily volume of modified files is comparable to 16 GB,

  I'm assuming that a larger cache will actually add value

  (2) install an SSD 'broad' to serve the main startup disk by replacing

  the existing hdisk of 1 TB (I use a tiny fraction of it) with a 2.5 SSD "

  with a suitable support (and deleting or disabling the 16 GB SSD disk cache)

  Thanks in advance for any advice on this point, HP does not have any information on that, nor any obvious way to access or review the settings of the RST (firmware?) used in their SSDcache + hDisk arrangement (Yes, tried Ctrl-I, the boot, etc.-no joy).

  -Rob in Hong Kong

  Hi WAWood,

  A late thank you for your advice. Based on this feedback and having discovered just that software ExpressCache 'hidden' on my system quietly stopped working after the upgrade to Windows 10 (and HP support does not currently have updated software ExpressCache for Windows 10), I decided to install a large SSD drive and use it as a boot drive.

  In the this could help other all-in-One HP Envy owners tilt, here is a summary of the steps that worked with obvious disclaimers that even if it worked for me, it is not a 'universal' solution and also that if you mess with the hardware/software of your system, you are of course on your own, without guarantees or responsibility for this author) :

  (also, my apologies for the format - in a hurry)

  System:

  HP Envy tilt (23-k001h model) running Windows 10

  Basic purpose:

  Change the original storage configuration:

  Hdisk (boot drive) 1 TB + 16 GB mSATA SSD cache ("linked" to the hdisk via ExpressCache)

  TO:

  Hdisk (spare drive) 1 TB + new Samsung Evo 850 mSATA SSD 500 GB (as boot drive)

  Result

  Many, many "zippier" system: QuickStart, app launch, etc..

  Measures

  Disable ExpressCache

  (HP Envy models tilt seem to use this supplement Windows 3 rd-party, instead of Intel RST):

  In my case, as my recent visit to Windows 10 has taken care of this for me (haha), I don't have to do;  Otherwise, I guess we should stop the ExpressCache service, uninstall the software from ExpressCache and/or drivers, then reboot - suggest you only look it up in the forums, because I can't offer my own experience on this one.

  Clear/unloading as much unnecessary data from drive C: (1 TB hdisk) as possible.

  The goal would be to have used space on C: be greatly below your 500 GB (or other) new drive (in my case, I cut the used space on the C: 100 GB).

  Also a good idea to run the defrag Windows on C:, as may be useful (necessary?) for the reduction of this partition in the next step

  Disk management Windows allows you to shrink the Windows partition (mapped as C

  Goal: you want a net size of all partitions on hdisk (Windows + hidden/recovery/system partitions) to be a little less than the actual size of your new SSD (my "500 GB" SSD was actually more as 465 GB)

  Warning: disk management can claim "not enough space" to shrink Windows (C when it's clearly not partition so - in my case, the problem was due to my Windows partition is not the last partition on the disk before the unallocated space (if any) - obviously this disrupts the management of disks.)  If so, you need to move partitions using a 3rd party soft as AOMEI (free app - has worked well for me) all for the Windows partition is the last partition on the hdisk, with unallocated space located immediately after the Windows partition.

  Result: when the dust settles, the partitions allocated on your hdisk must have a net size which is comfortably at less than the actual capacity of your new SSD (in my case, the partitions was 440 GB on a capacity 465 GB SSD).

  Physics card mSATA SSD upgrade

  • Power PC, unplug from the mains and remove the rear plastic cover:
  • http://support.HP.com/in-en/document/c04100400
• Remove the metal shield covering the RAM:
  • http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c04007922 (only the first 3 steps)
• Remove the metal shield covering the motherboard:
  • Locate/remove the 3 screws holding it down.
  • Lift on board as possible shielding at the booth of PC;
• Locate the SSD of origin (see tiny map labeled as SanDisk or some of these) and remove 2 tiny screws to attach to the motherboard.
• While keeping you constantly connected to the Earth (strap, touch metal chassis, etc.):
  • gently remove original SSD and save it in some static container (if upgrade fails and you want to restore the system to the original state of the material)
  • Gently insert the new card in lateral connector mSATA SSD,
  • and to the motherboard with the same 2 live
• Replace the motherboard of armour, armour of RAM and plastic cover

Check the new SSD 'visible' to the BIOS:

At first startup, use ESC to enter the BIOS settings, then check that BIOS 'sees' the new SSD as the original hdisk

Clone all partitions on hdisk--> new SSD

Start & connect to Windows and use Macrium Reflect (free) to clone all the partitions on hdisk for the new SSD - see large portico advice to:

http://www.howtogeek.com/199068/how-to-upgrade-your-existing-hard-drive-in-under-an-hour/

Do not forget:

• Suggestion from the link above, you must first a Macrium recovery disk
• You can clone * all * the partitions on the SSD's original hdisk

Result: cloned partitions now visible on new SSD. may have little extra/no allocated space on SSD (can deal with that later)

In the BIOS change the boot to new SSD drive

Reboot PC, press ESC to enter the BIOS to change the boot order:

• make the first boot drive in SSD
• also suggest to disable booting from originals hdisk (night before you really start SSD)
• Save the BIOS settings and exit the BIOS

Make sure that you have started of SSD and clean the unwanted drive mappings

Start & log Windows

(the fact that you can reach this point means that you have passed the first test)

Use Windows Disk Manager to

* ensure that C: is mapped to your new SSD.

* make sure that you can still see original hdisk, too

* suggest remove you mappings of unnecessary letters drive

(with the exception of the C: drive!) for all other partitions on hdisk or SSD

Test through full reboot

As a further test, do a reboot of Windows to make sure there are no problems with the start-up of SSD; again, once in Windows, use disk management to check again once your C: drive is the partition on the new SSD

Optimizing Windows SSD

There are several Windows setting changes that you should do when your primary/boot disk is an SSD, either:

• If you have purchased a Samsung SSD, you can download/use their app "Samsung magician" to do so (see "Optimization of OS" section), or
• Google "Optimizing windows 10 ssd" to find any number of guides to achieve this, such as:
  • http://www.disk-partition.com/Windows-10/SSD-optimization-Windows-10-4348.html
• Note: one of the most important changes are those related to mode AHCI (ability to GARNISH)
• Note: some suggested parameters cannot be 100% essential, for example:
  • pagefile on SSD: some authors suggest no page on the DSS file, others say "keep" small'(?) "; most compelling advice I've seen are to retain the page file on the SSD, but let Windows manage the size; in all cases, should make sure that your system has * sufficient * RAM (8 GB and more) for your usage requirements.
  • 'leave free space' (aka overprovisioning): SSD experts suggest that current-technology SSDS, it is not necessary
  • "do not defrag": 10 Windows recognizes SSD and disable defrag automatically

All the problems?

Note that at this point, you still have your original hdisk with windows/data for a few days, so if this migration does not work, you can always go back by turning off the SSD and change the startup disk (in BIOS) originally hdisk

After a few days: some cleaning

When you are reasonably comfortable that your system is booting from SSD and Windows/apps work correctly, you can perform the following operations:

• Use Macrium Reflect (free) or similar to save a snapshot of your current partition SSD
• After the backup, delete old/unnecessary partitions on original hdisk. For some, drive management works; others may need to resort to using the command line program Admin "diskpart" (read the instructions carefully!) and use "Delete Partition Override" (be very sure that you have selected a partition on the * original hdisk * (IE, 'old'))
• Disk management allows you to create a new simple volume on hdisk original now empty, as a reader of alternative utility
• Regular backup of SSD Annex: SSDS, as with mechanical parts, will fail - it's only a matter of time. It 's going to happen. Thus, strongly suggest that you configure regular (daily) snapshots of your SSD partitions. Again, I use Macrium Reflect to do this with a full backup weekly + differential daily backups and save the images in the now empty original hdisk in the PC
• If your SSD has any sense space not allocated, you may want to expand the Windows partition on the SSD drive use disk management to make use of this space

• Z1 AHCI mode does not work after charges earn 8.1 installation

  Hi all
  
  Just installed a Samsung Evo SSD 840 in my workstation Z1 and decided to upgrade to windows 8.1. Installation was not serious, but my SSD drive is running in IDE mode, even if the BIOS is set to RAID/AHCI. I installed all the latest drivers of the support page as well as all windows updates.
  
  How can I activate the AHCI mode instead of run in IDE?

  Have sorted it. Really stupid. I forgot to check the bios firmware. Necessary to update for the last, now have the opportunity to AHCI only. Reinstalled win 8.1 and everything works as it should.

• 15 - p112ne: HP 15-p112ne: port msata and the AHCI mode

  Hello.

  I think to upgrade my laptop HP 15 - p112ne. I want to buy SSDS. So my first question is, if this model has msata port available on the motherboard. And the second question is, why I did not in the BIOS SATA mode selection? Because then I would switch to AHCI mode.

  Thank you.

  Here is the Service Manual:

  Manual

  There is no port mSATA on this model. Page 94 shows how to get into the hard drive Bay to replace the hard drive with an SSD.

  This video will be helpful, too:

  http://h10032.www1.HP.com/CTG/manual/c04427554

  The BIOS is constantly on ahci. You don't need to play with it. If you need more help with this return ticket.

  If it's 'the Answer' please click on 'Accept as Solution' to help others find it.

• The card mother MS-7184 (AmethystM) in my old HP PC takes in AHCI mode?

  First of all, thank you for taking the time to read my post!

  I recently bought an OCZ Aligity 4 256 GB SSD drive. I want to use the SSD as drive replacing the original hard drive in my old HP Pavilion Media Center TV m7334n desktop PC. Here is the link to my pc:

  http://h10025.www1.HP.com/ewfrf/wc/product?cc=us&LC=en&DLC=en&product=1821850

  I know that the motherboard identified on the Web site above for this model of PC is A8AE-(AmberineM), but the motherboard I have is MS-7184 (AmethystM), the specifications of the motherboard is here:

  http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c00378480

  I updated the BIOS with the latest version (3.47, 03/03/2006) I can found on the HP website. In the BIOS, I can't find any info on the AHCI support. My questions are:

  1 - is the card mother MS-7184 (AmethystM) in my old HP Pavilion Media Center TV m7334n Desktop PC support AHCI mode?

  2. how to configure CMOS when I use the SSD as my main drive on the old HP computer?

  Note Please that I have aleady copy drive hard whole orginal on the new SSD and I started my computer on the new SSD. This works. I have another post questions on the recovery of the system on the SSD, the post is here:

  http://h30434.www3.HP.com/T5/desktop-operating-systems-e-g/system-recovery-doesn-t-work-on-cloned-SS...

  Thank you!

  You are the very welcome.

  I leave these settings at their default values.

  You have the SSD connected to sata port, and it must operate to the maximum 150 Mbps transfer speed, 133 or 100 no matter what readings are displayed, as would an IDE drive.

  The problem is that since there is no AHCI setting, the drive cannot enjoy the native command files or TOPPING.

  Aside from that, an SSD should be better that a standard SATA I mechanical drive or IDE hard drive.

  Even subjectively, you should 'see' a difference in sensitivity of disc, not you?

  Improved time, faster startup time for research, for example.

• Dv3507ea HP: HP DV3507ea ssd upgrade

  Dear all,

  I think a replacement hard drive with an ssd. Could you please let me know what is the generation of SATA which is currently supported by my phone and if he should be an upgrade in terms of performance? In addition, I open the BIOS but I have not found any AHCI mode. Is it supported by default or not at all?

  Thanks in advance and I look forward to hear from you.

  Best regards

  George

  I think're missing you a digit in the model number and I guess you have a dv6-3000 series dv7-3000. On these models that will be SATA-II, but don't let it stop you from getting an SSD SATA-III. It still works fine and will be fast enough. Very little difference in the daily operation between SATA II and SATA-III. AHCI (native sata) is automatically set up. If it is a DV7 with dual hard drive bays actually maybe it's ahci raid that takes special attention, but if it is a dv6 with a single hard drive, just ahci and if you install Windows 7 or more recent TRIM and files of native command will automatically integrate your SSD will be optimized with no special tricks. Treat it like a hard drive and look not in other words.

• AHCI mode support?

  I have a hp dv6 6178sl (i7 2 - gen 2670qm, Intel HM65 motherboard) with win 8 is installed.

  Is my supported portable ahci mode?

  I bought an ssd unit, so I need activate this mode... under the bios I can't find this setting... but under windows, in 'Device Manager', I see this point:

  Controller IDE ATA / ATAPI--> Mobile Intel (r) Express Chipset SATA AHCI Controller

  I so ahci activated already? Can I put in my ssd without any problem?

  Hi, Milite777:

  You are 100% correct.

  BIOS of the laptop is on AHCI by default, or you would not have seen that the Intel (r) Mobile Express Chipset SATA AHCI Controller listed in Device Manager under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller section that there are listed.

  You don't need to do a thing... just remove the battery and the a/c adapter and install your SSD.