It was time to clean my case/mobo then test some cheap SSDs in RAID 0. My boot drive was on SATA3_3 and performed well but I had to move it to put the 3 Intel 520s in ports 1-3. My WD hard drive was already in port 4 so I left it there and put my boot drive in port 5. Bad move, I'd forgotten that port 5 is shared with e-sata. My PC booted up well enough and performance was OK but sequential read/write on the boot disk was way down. Samsung Magician tells me that AHCI is deactivated.
OK, I swapped the WD and Samsung 840 Pro over so the WD is on port 5, set the 840 Pro as Boot#1 on port 4 and started the PC but Windows Boot Manager is confused and won't use it. I've tried various things; Combined Mode, e-SATA enabled and so on. I even tried switching to RAID mode and having the 840 Pro as a single disk array, but no go. The PC will only boot with the 840 Pro in port 5.
Has anyone had this problem and solved it?
Cheers
Steve
OK, I swapped the WD and Samsung 840 Pro over so the WD is on port 5, set the 840 Pro as Boot#1 on port 4 and started the PC but Windows Boot Manager is confused and won't use it. I've tried various things; Combined Mode, e-SATA enabled and so on. I even tried switching to RAID mode and having the 840 Pro as a single disk array, but no go. The PC will only boot with the 840 Pro in port 5.
Has anyone had this problem and solved it?
Cheers
Steve