Using SATA - couldn't find any AHCI settings in my motherboard BIOS (NV 790i ultra board).
I checked it out at the shop I bought the original drive from, and it was a year and a half old and unfortunately out of warranty. Looks like the controller board died.
Anyhoo I ended up buying a 120 GB SSD to replace it (with a three year warranty!!!) and spent last night getting my PC up and running again.
I had a Windows 7 upgrade disk that is a complete 'B' and required me to install windows Vista on the new drive before doing a clean install. Unfortuantely Windows Vista kept on blue screening during the install.
Eventually I got to a point where Vista accepted my authentification code before crapping out. From that point the Windows 7 upgrade allowed me to do a clean install!
What a waste of time just to save a few dollars for an upgrade disk!
Hopefully I will learn for the next version of windows that comes out!
Any way now I've got a completely fresh system with Windows 7, Anti virus, various drivers and COD!
11-25-2011, 10:47 AM
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