> You start with step 1 while you are still in Windows in IDE mode.
> 1. Run the Registry Editor (regedit.exe)
> 2. Navigate to Registry Key:
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Msahci
> 3. Set the "Start" value to 0 (zero)
> 4. Navigate to Registry Key:
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Pciide
> 5. Set the "Start" value to 0 (zero)
> 6. Shut down
> 7. Start up again, but before Windows boots go into the BIOS configuration screens
> and change the disk mode to "AHCI". Save the new BIOS configuration and restart so
> that Windows boots.
>
> When Windows starts, it will detect the change, load new disk drivers, and do one
> more reboot to start up with them.
>
> There is also a kind of failsafe method but I forgot exactly how I did it before.
> It's the changes you need to make when changing the whole motherboard and can't be
> bothered to reinstall Windows from scratch. Yes it can be done. I did it myself when
> I upgraded from an AMD cpu to the i7 920 that I'm still running today.
I am up to step 7... No setting grrr.... Oh and forget 'hacking' the bios to enable the menus to get at it... Apparently they put in some sort of signed encryption key thing no one understands yet.
Good news is I may be able to set it thru the ACPI boot environment. Some kind soul out there has built a menu disassembler for the firmware which lets you figure out the exact ACPI memory store they hold the values at. The setting is in there though. I am going to dig into it a bit. It looks like the menus get their 'show this' from another memory location which I think I *may* be able to set thru the same method this other guy is using to turn on AHCI. Though I suspect the firmware actually controls it and not the memory location.
Only picked up 2 windows malwares from this adventure so far. Thank God for virtualbox...
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