I'm not sure the problem that this person ran into is related to the drive being a SSD. I'm under the impression that enabling AHCI after you've already installed the operating system can lead to problems. A quick search pulled up this MS article on correcting a stop error that can occur if you do this with Vista or Win7, for example. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976 Apparently, the problem described in the MS article has to do with the these operating systems disabling drivers that are not being used, in order to speed up the boot time. A driver will need to be manually re-enabled, before changing the BIOS setting to AHCI enabled. (I believe this problem can be avoided by enabling AHCI before you install the OS (and supplying the needed driver using the F6 method, if the OS doesn't have what is needed).) I didn't go back to the Tom's forum to make sure this applies in that person's case, but I thought this information might be of general interest. John Sproule -------------- Original Message ------------- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 21:51:13 -0500 From: Richard Glazier <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: SSD Drives with XP SP2 I'd feel negligent if I did not say what happened on the other list. The guy turned on AHCI in his BIOS and the box would no longer boot. He had an Image from this morning, so all is fixed. I'm not sure what happened. (Watch out...) Right before that, I had warned him there were problems in Nov 2009. Rick Glazier The NOSPIN Group has added a new feature on our website, web based bulletinboard for questions and answers: Visit our sister website at http://nospin.com