Activating AHCI mode after installing Windows on IDE mode
I recently just rebuilt my home PC and installed Winodws 7 on it. It was a nice fast, smooth install and generally went without a hitch.
That is, without a hitch until I discovered I'd installed Windows whilst the motherboard's SATA controller was in IDE mode and not AHCI mode. Why is this important? Well without AHCI you don't get nice things like power saving, native command queuing etc and that impacts the power consumption, speed and noise of your drives.
Of course that does rely on having a drive that supports those features, since like most newish drives mine do, I...