- #SATA DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS 7 PRO 64 BIT INSTALL#
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Prior to OS installation doing so after you have installed the OS will disable the PC.
The issue with AHCI is it needs to be enabled in the BIOS Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.ĪHCI (Advanced Host controller) makes NCQ (Native Command Queing) along with hot-plugging or hot swapping through SATA Serial-ATA host controllers possible Vista was the first to offer this feature.
#SATA DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS 7 PRO 64 BIT INSTALL#
Question: why does the 64-bit Windows 7 Pro installer fail to install the AHCI driver, and what can I do about it?
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So I navigated to the appropriate AMD 圆4 IDE driver files on the Gigabyte CD, but the installer failed to load that one, too.
You might think that the Win7 installer would have an appropriate driver for the AMD SATA IDE since it has one for the Samsung DVD-Writer Optical Disk Drive (obviously),īut it did not find a HDD. Then I reconfigured the motherboard BIOS for SATA IDE (with SATA 3.0), and rebooted the system. I've made numerousĪnd repeated attempts with every storage media at hand which contains a copy of the AHCI driver files, but no joy.įor what it is worth, I also ran the software on the Repair Disc that I made soon after installing Win7 Pro, and it failed to load the AHCI driver from the SanDisk Cruzer and from the Gigabyte CD, respectively. Further, before running the Win7 installer for other attempts, I connected the external USB HDD, and navigated to an archived copy of the AHCI driver on it, but the Win7 installer failed to load it. I have also removed the Win7 installation DVD, loaded the Gigabyte CD, navigated to the driver and selected it. Except that now it fails to load the AHCI driver from the SanDisk Cruzer (!). Now the Win7 installer follows the same routine, of course. To make a long story short, eventually I decided to wipe the internal HDD again, afterīacking-up the data files on an external USB HDD. So: two years later, after I began encountering various problems for which I could find neither cause nor resolution, I suspected malware or Registry corruption.
#SATA DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS 7 PRO 64 BIT FULL#
Of course, I still have the Microsoft Windowsħ Pro installation DVDs, bought with a Full Retail License. Each time, the installer loaded the driver successfully without a hitch. I used that option, and the installer displayed a dialog with which I browsed to the Cruzer to select the AHCI driver. F6)ĭuring each install, the Win7 installer reported that it could not find a HDD and offered the option The GA-890FXA-UD5 (revision 2.1, BIOS ver. Prior to the first installation, I configured the Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 motherboard BIOS (updated) for SATA AHCI (with SATA 3.0), and copied the AHCI driver from the Gigabyte CD onto a USB SanDisk Cruzer (4GB). Installs) before I was satisfied with the third install. In fact, I installed Win7 three times (wiping the drive with DBAN after the first and second When I built my current computer system in May 2011, I did not encounter this problem with installing 64-bit Windows 7 Pro on the new 500 GB Western Digital HDD.