Got win 7 to boot on ssd, upgrade still fails in the same fashion. A couple odd things I found along the way, mbr is 500 megs for a 230g partition, Windows recovery from USB does not like my 7...

Stubbornness to my old way. Thanks for your time.

Going to try an offline upgrade with the other drives out, might pull my network card too

Seems install media still sticks at the spinning dots.

I think I see what we did and how it worked the...

I didn't really want to use the ssd for Windows, but it looks like I may have to. After getting 7 on AHCI I tried the upgrade from the hdd only to land on the good old spinning dots forever issue. I...

Working on AHCI 7 atm, but I wanted to ask why you recommend the ssd clone?

Holy... You are right. I didn't even think of it... Wow. Just wow. Thank you so much for your help and time.

That is where I bsod. For record, I tried AHCI normal boot once, it hung, tried safe mode, gets stuck at atipcie64, change bios, bsod. Going to unplug the ssd and see if I can recover win 7

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And in my excitement I failed about until I get a blue screen. I had the remnants of an install start up but wanting to be safer I cancelled it and went to boot 7 which now goes bsod due to ntfs....

I am going for the upgrade if I can get win7 to boot in ah I, which it looks like I'll be needing that post to get working now. Thanks for the help, I'm not cut out for this after all.

Can I just say ugh and f me? All this stress and sata controller fixes it. I'm blasted.

Yep still stuck with the split drives. Nothing fancy in bios but I did have sata set to ide... And miracle miracle. Let's go try an upgrade!

No dice trying to cancel, I could open a cmd but diskpart didn't seem to work.

The rescue USB froze on finding plug and play devices, restarting now to cancel that early

I can read the image in macrium. I would still rather upgrade but at least this is workable in the end. Just going to be a pain to configure all the little bits, which seem to transfer fine through...

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I will get macrium and (depending on the time it takes) post back within the hour

Yes, I had attempted the upgrade that way at some point.

So I have gone through all the usual hoops I can find on the upgrade issues, mostly based off the one error I have managed to get spit back: 0xC1900101 - 0x20017

This is usually found to be a...