Boot IDE and AHCI drive

[dexxterlab97]

One of my frive only boots with AHCI mode while the other can only boot with IDE mode. I can change in BIOS but is there anyway to make them cooperate together? Kinda lazy getting into BIOS everytime want to boot soemthing

 

[alexoiu]

What Windows using on the IDE one?

 

[bambiboom]

One of my frive only boots with AHCI mode while the other can only boot with IDE mode. I can change in BIOS but is there anyway to make them cooperate together? Kinda lazy getting into BIOS everytime want to boot soemthing

dexxterlabs,

It seems the fundamental problem is trying to have two boot drives on one system. That would require re-selecting the boot order each time the other boot drive was used.

If the IDE drive has a different OS to the AHCI, the thing to do would be to create a VM on the AHCI drive. On startup, you choose the VM. Not only easy on startup, but it would also avoid driver and multiple version of applications .EXE conflicts, plus you can be running Windows XP or Linux Slackware on a very fast M.2 AHCI drive like the Samsung SM951 AHCI.

Once you setup VM's you can have various iterations with specialties for performance. I've often thought of a VM only for 3D modeling- stripped down Windows 7 with minimal startup / processes and only three or four programs and a separate one for calculation /analytical. simulation- Mathematica, database, and Matlab. VM's must be addictive, I know someone running 15 or 20.

Cheers,

BambiBoom