Windows Enterprise Desktop:

AHCI boot problem based on drive geometry issue

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December 26, 2011  1:26 AM

An AHCI Dilemma Resolved at Long Last



Posted by: Ed Tittel
AHCI boot problem based on drive geometry issue, if drive detection fails during AHCI boot try reformatting the drive whose detection fails

This past summer, I had to rebuild one of my test Windows machines when the original motherboard went south. When doing the rebuild, the machine crashed during the reboot part-way through the install process, and forced me to switch from AHCI to IDE mode for the disk drives I was using, even though...

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