Originally Posted by Perception

I'd love to give this a try, but do you think it will help being that its still failing even on a USB drive? And no, switching back and forth from ACHI to Native IDE doesn't help me one bit..it still gets stuck on the same line every time like clockwork.

Using the install I put on the USB drive should bypass the whole SATA problem all together shouldn't it? Yet it still fails...i don't get it, unless the problem isn't SATA related at all, but if it's not, then I just don't know what it could be.

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