Friday, October 2, 2015

Switching Windows Server 2003 from SATA/IDE to SATA/AHCI mode post-install

A while back i installed Windows Server 2003 (32-bit), but had IDE mode rather than AHCI set in the BIOS. Predictably just changing the BIOS makes 2003 blue-screen on boot-up, which to my knowledge is due to missing drivers. How can i install these drivers without resorting to a clean install?


My motivation for enabling AHCI is to allow hot-swapping, which to my knowedge SATA can't do in IDE mode.

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