No joy...AHCI was already enabled, I took the ssd out . of the laptop and put it in my desktop and made a disk and partition image.
I wish I could noodle this out, because I like your method that suggests two different images.
I have tested my flash drive and my dvd win 8.1 setup files. They both will run on my desktop.. I think my latop has hardware issues, what do you think?
I backed up my drivers and thought i might uninstall the usb drivers and then re install them.