Enable AHCI MODE in Windows 10 ;  AFTER windows is installed

Change IDE mode to AHCI.

• Start windows 10
• Select “Safe Mode Boot” in msconfig
• Reboot ; go into BIOS
• Change Setting to AHCI
• Continue into Windows (Safe Mode)
• Let Windows do its magic
• Uncheck Safe Mode in msconfig
• Reboot as normal

 

 

 

AHCI and IDE are two modes in which a hard drive communicates with the rest of the computer system using a SATA storage controller. SATA hard drives can operate in a backward-compatible PATA/IDE mode, a standard AHCI mode or vendor-specific RAID. AHCI stands for Advanced Host Controller Interfaceand is a faster mode of operation compared to IDE. RAID mode also enables and makes use of AHCI.

AHCI provides a standard system that designers and developers can use to configure, detect, or program SATA/AHCI adapters. Note that even though AHCI taps into the more advanced features of SATA (e.g., hot swapping) for host systems, it is a separate standard from those set for SATA.

Speed test in “IDE MODE”

 

Speed test in “AHCI MODE”