Aspire Z24-890-UA91 Safely Entering/Exiting AHCI?

jakfish

I have a Acer Aspire Z24-890-UA91 and I recently had an undeletable file on the Win10 desktop. I finally got rid of it by turning the desktop directory into an ftp server and deleting said file through a combination of Linux and Windows CE, of all things.

What generated this weird workaround is that my Linux livecd would not access the Win10 partition and apparently that's because the BIOS has set the SSD to SATA mode. Eventually, I may need to access the Win10 drive again (eg: USB flash virus scan). Is it safe to change into AHCI, deal with the Win10 partition via Linux-on-USB, then revert back to SATA? Without damaging Win10?

Thanks,

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StevenGen

jakfish said:

I have a Acer Aspire Z24-890-UA91 and I recently had an undeletable file on the Win10 desktop. I finally got rid of it by turning the desktop directory into an ftp server and deleting said file through a combination of Linux and Windows CE, of all things.

What generated this weird workaround is that my Linux live cd would not access the Win10 partition and apparently that's because the BIOS has set the SSD to SATA mode. Eventually, I may need to access the Win10 drive again (eg: USB flash virus scan). Is it safe to change into AHCI, deal with the Win10 partition via Linux-on-USB, then revert back to SATA? Without damaging Win10?

Thanks,
Jake

 

"AHCI Mode" is the proper setting to have your setting in "BIOS Main" it will not make a difference, as the only difference is and if it will change to RAID. 

StevenGen

jakfish said:

I have a Acer Aspire Z24-890-UA91 and I recently had an undeletable file on the Win10 desktop. I finally got rid of it by turning the desktop directory into an ftp server and deleting said file through a combination of Linux and Windows CE, of all things.

What generated this weird workaround is that my Linux live cd would not access the Win10 partition and apparently that's because the BIOS has set the SSD to SATA mode. Eventually, I may need to access the Win10 drive again (eg: USB flash virus scan). Is it safe to change into AHCI, deal with the Win10 partition via Linux-on-USB, then revert back to SATA? Without damaging Win10?

Thanks,
Jake

 

"AHCI Mode" is the proper setting to have your setting in "BIOS Main" it will not make a difference, as the only difference is and if it will change to RAID. 

jakfish

Many thanks for your quick reply.

Jake