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Is it worth reinstalling to enable AHCI on my SSD in order to improve compile performance under Visual Studio?

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Mar 15, 20261764 views
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I am compiling to an SSD connected through SATA using IDE emulation on Windows 7. Unfortunately, I forgot to enable AHCI when I installed, and though there are ways of performing surgery on Windows to get it to use AHCI after the fact, they do not apply to my specific situation. I would need to wip…

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It's worth enabling AHCI, but there is no need to reinstall. Here's how you should do: If you're running XP, then install the ACHI driver from the motherboard vendor. For Windows 7 you shouldn't need to install any drivers. Add the following 3 lines…

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