Hi! First of all: what an amazing source of information this forum is! I spent a large part of the day browsing and reading up. Thanks! :)

I'm planning to add an SSD to an older system and installing Windows 7 on it. Currently the system has Windows XP SP3 32-bit running on it (a rather ancient install, but I'd rather not re-install). I want to switch from IDE to AHCI in the BIOS. The motherboard is an AsusTEK A8V MX with a Soutbridge VIA VT8251 chipset and a AMD Athlon 64 CPU. In the device manager of Windows XP the following information is provided as hardware_id in the device manager: PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_3349&SUBSYS_33491106&REV_00 (I hope I phrased that correctly). Naturally, I want to make this switch a painless as possible...

I found a couple of post that could help solve my problem (especially this one: t2716f45-How-to-switch-from-IDE-to-AHCI-mode-while-running-XP). However, I'm at a loss when it comes to which drivers to use and where I can find them. I have found a driver package called "VIA Hyperion Pro Driver Package v5.24A" (and earliet versions of that package) after searching for quite while and, as I understand it, that package should contain the AHCI-drivers for the chipset on my motherboard.

I'd rather not take any chances by simply guessing what files I should use and I hope one the extremely knowledgable experts on this forum can help me out.

If I posted this in the wrong category, please feel free to move it.

Thanks in advance! :)