hmm i wonder what the problem was then.
It’s good you posted back for everyone else too 
I havn’t had a board of my own that has AHCI support but i had to disable it before
to install xp on my brothers laptop and i left it disabled and he ended up having BSOD
latter on and i had to turn it back on… anyway i don’t know much about it lol
all i do know is persisentance pays… as you showed here !
also i wonder are you using GPT partitions at all ? I’m seeing this more and more
and i don’t have any experience with that either… new technologies come out and
its hard to keep up sometimes.
