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lambdapro2

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February 22nd, 2020 12:00

T3500 Switch from SATA to AHCI

I am working on my daughter's T3500.  It was purchased refurbished many years ago.  When I started working on it, I found out that the two 1TB WD Blue HDDs had been set up as SATA.  Right now I have migrated SATA 0 (boot) to an SSD on SATA 4.  It can boot as long as SATA 0, 1, 3 are turned off.

Here is my plan to address this:

Install USB 3.0 PCIE card

Create system image from SATA 0 to a WD 1TB USB HDD.

Install 1TB SSD temporarily into SATA 0

Change machine to ACHI for drives

Boot with Windows 10 System Installation ROM

Restore system image from USB HDD onto 1TB SSD.

Test if that boots.

If it works, then remove SSD temporarily and replace with 1TB HDD

Boot with Windows 10 System Installation ROM

Restore system image from USB HDD onto 1TB HDD.

Move 1TB HDD to SATA 1

Put 1TB SSD into SATA 0

Install 2TB HDD into SATA 3

Move 2nd 1TB HDD to SATA 4

Create new system image onto SATA 3

This is sure a lot of work, but I don't know any other way to convert the machine to AHCI.

Am I on the right track?

David

 

san071

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February 22nd, 2020 15:00

Hi, to switch operation from either IDE (or RAID) to AHCI within Windows 10 without having to reinstall.  Here’s how.

  1. Right-click the Windows Start Menu. Choose Command Prompt (Admin).
    1. If you don’t see Command Prompt listed, it’s because you have already been updated to a later version of Windows.  If so, use this method instead to get to the Command Prompt:
      1. Click the Start Button and type cmd
      2. Right-click the result and select Run as administrator
  2. Type this command and press ENTER: bcdedit /set {current} safeboot minimal
    1. If this command does not work for you, try bcdedit /set safeboot minimal
  3. Restart the computer and enter BIOS Setup (the key to press varies between systems).
  4. Change the SATA Operation mode to AHCI from either IDE or RAID (again, the language varies).
  5. Save changes and exit Setup and Windows will automatically boot to Safe Mode.
  6. Right-click the Windows Start Menu once more. Choose Command Prompt (Admin).
  7. Type this command and press ENTER: bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot
    1. If you had to try the alternate command above, you will likely need to do so here also: bcdedit /deletevalue safeboot
  8. Reboot once more and Windows will automatically start with AHCI drivers enabled.

Succes!

lambdapro2

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February 22nd, 2020 17:00

Will be back in Lubbock on Thursday to try.  TKS for the assist.

David

san071

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February 22nd, 2020 17:00

lambdapro2

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February 28th, 2020 01:00

This solution saved me an enormous amount of time last night.  TKS

David

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