Enabling AHCI on existing Windows XP installation
February 12, 2019Download Intel Sata RAID/AHCI storage driver floppy
In device manager change existing IDE ATA/ATAPI controller:
If you do not already see “Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller” in the list do the below:
- open IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers (click on +)
- right click the first Intel controller listed
- select “Update driver…”
- select “No, not this time, Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)”
- select “Don’t search. I will choose the driver to install”
- select the Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller and click Next (do not reboot)
- repeat steps above for the second controller
- Reboot
Once you have Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
- open IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers (click on +)
- right click the first Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
- select “Update driver…”
- select “No, not this time, Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)”
- select “Don’t search. I will choose the driver to install”
- click on “Have disk” and browse to the directory with the AHCI drivers
- select the iaAHCI.inf and click Next
- ignore any warnings and reboot
(If you get a blue screen and the system reboots during these steps, repeat them for the second controller)
Change controller to AHCI in BIOS and save.
Your system should now run in AHCI mode.