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    single drive, AHCI or RAID?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Captmario, Jun 26, 2013.

  1. Captmario

    Captmario Notebook Consultant

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    Hello, i just got my MSI laptop and i directly started installing windows 7 into it, at finalizing stage an error popped up saying " Windows cannot be configured to run on this computer's hardware" something like that..

    after a bit of searching, its related to RAID mode

    So now i switched to AHCI in Bios it was RAID before.
    I want to know if RAID is faster then AHCI or helpful in someway? im installing windows right now on AHCI mode and i have single 750gb HDD.

    Any recommendations?
     
    Captmario, Jun 26, 2013
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    No point in using RAID with a single drive. AHCI is fine.
     
    Commander Wolf, Jun 26, 2013
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