Sata confusion

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dazzazzad

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So I got a new build, most of which was from rebel. So asked them to put everything together as I had only put a system together myself once. It arrived. All looked good. Installed a 3rd HD and PSU and installed Windows 8 and everything was great.

Until I installed ASMedia Sata drivers. Even though the Asrock site said the drivers were win 8 compatible, installing them meant Windows could not boot. I figured it wouldn't be long till the drivers were updated but a couple months later and they aren't. So wanting SATA3 goodness for my SSD OS drive and secondary HDD I tried to switch to the intel sata3 ports.

AHCI mode is on both ASMedia and Intel so it was my understanding I could move them.

But when booting up after the switch they were picked up in the advanced storage options but when I went to boot priority I could only see my DVD and the 3rd hdd that's on sata2. I exited and sure enough after the windows logo the PC just shut down.

I switched back to ASMedia ports and went into bios and I still only had the options of DVD and my 3rd hdd to choose from. But this time when I exited the bios windows started perfectly.

So I really want to know what's going on with that boot priority and is there no way I can switch the drives to the intel side? Maybe there's some bios setting or something I'm missing out on.
 
You can't move the OS drive between controllers without reinstalling the OS. It's a Windows driver issue preventing it.

You'll have better system performance by running the SSD on the Intel controller. Take the plunge and do a reinstall.
 
Sonofabitch

Would this work...

Use win 8 to take a backup of my system image.
Switch drive to Intel
Boot off windows disc
Format
Reinstall (does win 8 allow a certain number of installations on different systems and would changing controller count as a different system?)
Load windows image
Win!

Oh, and in that scenario would my FNB account, which can only be accessed by this PC, still work or would I have to set up a new trusted account and get a new certificate?
 
Ja, if you're having problems, imaging Windows isn't going to help you at all - rather just use the "File and Settings Transfer Wizard"

Your FNB login is still the same, reloading doesn't affect this - you might have validate your credentials when trying the login from the new system.

BIOS settings, especially on new UEFI BIOS'es can be confuculating and sometimes too smart for their own good - fiddle a bit, the settings are there.

Windows 8 will still activate on reinstall because your hardware hasn't changed.
 
FlatspinZA said:
Ja, if you're having problems, imaging Windows isn't going to help you at all - rather just use the "File and Settings Transfer Wizard"
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Well the only problem I have is that my OS is connected to the wrong damn controller. So an image wouldn't work after switching to the Intel side?




Your FNB login is still the same, reloading doesn't affect this - you might have validate your credentials when trying the login from the new system.
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Well it's not the login, it's the certificate which locks to my system and my system being a trusted profile, meaning I can only login using this system. Wonder if changing the controller and doing a new install will alter those two things.

BIOS settings, especially on new UEFI BIOS'es can be confuculating and sometimes too smart for their own good - fiddle a bit, the settings are there.
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You mean for boot priority? I really went through everything. Couldn't work that out. First time I installed I had the option of my SSD, HDD and DVD.


Windows 8 will still activate on reinstall because your hardware hasn't changed.
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Great thanks.
 
Someone recommended Macrium Redeploy which supposedly lets you restore an image on different hardware. Has anyone tried this? Figure I'll backup normally this weekend and then give it a try. If it works great, if not then just have to do the whole spiel again.
 
There were suggestions that the controller switch will not allow that to work.
 
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