Yes, Windows 7 has the necessary AHCI and raid drivers available during install. I Installed windows 7 successfully on a SSD when the sata mode was set to AHCI. As to raid support of the ICHR10 chipset, I believe the support is there, but since I have no use for raid, I cannot personally verify that option. The normal ICHR10 support is there.
Aug 13, 2009 I have a Phenom II x4 920 processor with an ASUS M3A78-CM motherboard. When I installed Windows 7 and tried to install the driver when I partitioned the drive it wouldn't find the driver. Aug 11, 2015 I ran into the same problem while trying to do a fresh install of Windows 10 after having successfully upgraded a Win 7 system already in AHCI mode (1155 Gigabyte motherboard). I solved my problem by doing a fresh reinstall of Win 7, activating AHCI mode, then upgrading to Windows 10 on that fresh Win7 install.
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How can I enable AHCI on a SATA drive after installing Windows? 1 answer
I installed Windows 7 onto a SSD with the motherboard in IDE mode. Now when I try to change the motherboard to AHCI mode, Windows 7 will not successfully boot (blue screens mid-boot).
How can I add AHCI support to the Windows 7 installation? If I can not add AHCI support I plan on doing a reinstall of Windows 7 with the motherboard in AHCI mode.
As a note, I just did the Windows 7 install yesterday, so I don't need to worry about losing any data on the hard drive due to reinstall.
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You don't have to reinstall Windows to enable AHCI. From this Microsoft Support article:
Exit all Windows-based programs.
Click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press Enter. If you receive the User Account Control dialog box, click Continue.
Locate and then click one of the following registry subkeys: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesMsahciHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetServicesIastorV
In the pane on the right side, right-click Start in the Name column, and then click Modify. In the Value data box, type 0, and then click OK. On the File menu, click Exit to close Registry Editor.
Caution is necessary when mucking around in the registry. If you're uncomfortable with doing it yourself, Microsoft also offers an automated 'Fix-It' utility to do it for you.