Post by techguy4life on May 8, 2011 10:15:54 GMT -5
answer: use the esata input on the middle of motherboard.
set it in this order. below. change it to RAID / AHCI in bios
SSD on SATA0
Optical Drive on SATA1
Original HDD on eSATA
This way, the BIOS does not complain and let's you have the SSD and the original HDD.
Please note that my system was already configured in RAID/AHCI/AutoDetect. According to DELL, certain configuration will require the RAID/AHCI to be enabled for the eSATA to work. If you must change this setting, you are running the risk of unstability in Windows XP
set it in this order. below. change it to RAID / AHCI in bios
SSD on SATA0
Optical Drive on SATA1
Original HDD on eSATA
This way, the BIOS does not complain and let's you have the SSD and the original HDD.
Please note that my system was already configured in RAID/AHCI/AutoDetect. According to DELL, certain configuration will require the RAID/AHCI to be enabled for the eSATA to work. If you must change this setting, you are running the risk of unstability in Windows XP