AHCI mode doesn't work

[ed4546]

I recently bought a HyperX Fury 120GB SSD which is now my boot drive. I also use my 1TB Toshiba HDD now as secondary storage. So, I heard that switching to AHCI mode in the BIOS can provide better speeds overall (is this true)? Basically, I would shut the PC down and turn it back on again and proceed into the BIOS. I went into the Sata Configuration section and changed it from Native IDE mode to AHCI mode. This however caused problems which were recoverable. Firstly, it would go to my HDD to boot from which only contains my steam library no OS. When that happened, I turned my PC off and went back into the BIOS and had to reconfigure it to boot from my SSD for some reason. Then the Windows logo would pop up (I'm using Windows 10 Pro) and be stuck there for a good 20 seconds when the most I usually see of it now is 1 second. Then an error message would pop up saying something like Inaccessible_boot_device and that I needed to reboot which the OS would do for me (how nice) but when it rebooted I just went back to the BIOS and put it back in IDE mode so I didn't cause any further damage to my PC. Can I even use AHCI mode or am I stuck with IDE? Thanks in advance!

[Kirky2k15]

Yeah, you'll probably have to re-install windows if you switch from IDE to AHCI, you usually get a bluescreen if you switch. Prob best to switch to AHCI mode then do a clean install of windows

 

Edit, it prob won't make much difference to performance, not that I've tried...

[vorticalbox]

 

 

"AHCI supports some important new features that IDE does not, such as native command queuing and hot-plugging hard drives. It also offers an improvement performance (speed) over IDE."

http://www.diffen.com/difference/AHCI_vs_IDE

[GM_Peka]

I thought most modern motherboards just defaulted to AHCI, which board you got mate?

[ed4546]

I thought most modern motherboards just defaulted to AHCI, which board you got mate?

Gigabyte F2A58M-HD2 (Micro-ATX)