SSD with DV9500T

Hi all

I have a HP Pavilion NOTEBOOK PC DV9500T, it has a processor intel and I would use a SSD instead of my normal hard drive. I have some questions about that, any help will be much appreciated

The laptop came with 2 hard drives of 160 GB each, and I would like to replace the main with 256 GB SSD.

1. How can I activate the AHCI in the bios? I can't find the option to turn it on.

2. can I use a 256 GB SSD? I read on some forums that HP laptop does not support more than 400GB total.

Thank you very much for your help.

Concerning

Shakur

1. no need to activate the ahci. It is set that way by default.

2. Yes. The main Bay can accept any hard drive size. The second span is not a true SATA port, just a USB with one taken SATA used to add a disk to the pure storage. Secondary Bay is not bootable, for example. Only secondary Bay has a size limit, I think. It is without doubt Cape Town 400 gig that read you. Put the SSD in the main Bay and an ordinary drive in the high Bay.

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