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Switching IDE to SATA with VirtualBox and Windows 7

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Mar 15, 20268362 views
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After reading various tips on how to increase performance with VirtualBox, I am attempting to switch from an IDE disk to SATA disk (in my particular case VirtualBox w/ an IDE disk is an order of magnitude slower than VMWare when compiling a small application with Visual Studio). I had hoped that Wi…

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Fix for: Switching IDE to SATA with VirtualBox and Windows 7

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Add a new SATA controller to your guest VM. Boot up your guest VM again and make sure it sees the new drive/controller. If the OS sees your new drive/controller then shutdown and switch your image over to the SATA controller.

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