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May 29th, 2014 16:00

Changing BIOS for SDD Addition

I plan to add an SSD to my Vostro 230 using a SATA 3 Gbs connection. When I change the BIOS from IDE to ACHI, will this affect the other drives connected in the IDE mode?  

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    osprey4

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    Posted May 29th, 2014 17:00

    Hih Bobengel,

    Switching from IDE to AHCI changes the controller mode for all drives. As long as you perform a clean installation of the operating system, it will have no impact on other drives. If you please to clone your existing system partition, then I'd suggest you Google "how to change from IDE to AHCI", and do this before you install the SSD.

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    carlosjoia

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    Posted April 11th, 2015 12:00

    Hi,

    I have a vostro 3500 and I could not add a new ssd driver replacing my dvd optical driver because my bios does not recognize it everytime I reboot the system. Do you know if it could solve my problem or I should do other kind of changes?

    Thanks, 

    Carlos

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