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Question posted by erndlc on March 27th, 2015

I Installed An 120g Ssd Drive, How Can I Change The Controller To Ahci?

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Answer #1: Posted by shri1987 on March 28th, 2015 9:52 AM

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Hello erndlc,

My name is Shrikanth and I work for the Social Media and Community Team at Dell. You will not be able to change the controller mode to AHCI because there is no option in your bios. You can only change the drive configuration and hard drive sequence.

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