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How to Enable AHCI Support in Windows

The Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) is a technical standard by Intel that can speed up hard disk read/write operations by making available SATA’s advanced capabilities such as hot swapping and native command queuing to the host system. Windows 7 and Windows Vista can natively support AHCI, and the AHCI driver is installed and used…


Change or Delete System Drive Letter via Registry to Remove Conflict USB or FireWire Drive Letter

In Windows operating system especially Windows XP, when plug in external USB or FireWire mass storage device such as USB key, flash drive, portable harddrive, the drive is not been assigned a drive letter by the system, hence the USB drive or FireWire drive is not showing in Explorer and no AutoPlay or AutoRun window…