DOS ain't dead - Windows question

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posted by marcov, 11.07.2014, 12:43

> > ... most modern new machines of the last 2-4 years have AHCI on
>
> So far, I've always been able to turn off AHCI in the BIOS

For me it was mostly about fieldrepairs, and it is mostly to avoid a slow recovery console bootting from (external) DVD. The systems are all win7 or win8, so a winxp bootdisk is then a bit out of sync.

Adding several steps before and after then removes the utility of the stick somewhat. I've a installer stick with windows 7 though, the next time I have to do it, I'll try to boot recovery console from that.

> when I needed
> to. If you do that, though, you also need to modify the Windows boot
> configuration or it won't boot any more.

Yes, and such things I want to avoid.

> I suspect that not all BIOS's will even have the option to turn AHCI off,
> especially as time moves forward.

Many OEM versions are very spartan, and the UEFI versions are even worse. Retail mobo's are generally quite forgiving.

OEM win 8 machines often turn on a bunch of secure boot nonsense that makes life really hard.

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