

After rebooting, my drive was no longer recognized by the BIOS, Win7 disk management (on my Vertex SSD), or the Mushkin Firmware Upgrade Utility (on my Vertex SSD). Unfortunately, I don't remember what the error said only that setup could not install windows.

However, just after the beginning of the Windows installation, I received a critical stop error. Upon installing the drive - making sure that my SATA ports were set to AHCI in the BIOS - both the BIOS and the Windows 7 Ultimate setup disk (via bootable USB) recognized the drive. I recently purchased a Mushkin Chronos Deluxe SSD, 240GB.
