XP would have to be at least SP2 if the drive is in SATA and there is no BIOS emulation mode for IDE in the BIOS. Then you would be feeding it diskettes for the SATA driver during the boot off the CD and I know of one other person in the world that knows this so my bet is you are unaware of the issues here. It's so complicated that I have seen folk lash out at others about it.
And XP has no native USB support to speak of when booting from CD, yet another dead end.
-> Since you can access all the files and there is no risk of file loss why not just reload the OS and get it working like you had it before?
Bob
PS. Since XP didn't have the trim command, I can only guess you elected to live with reduced performance and life span of the SSD drive.
I attached a seconday SATA drive to my system and then it stopped working. The primary drive is a 60gb Mushkin Digital SSD.
I tried to repair using the Windows disk however when I get to the point I need to type "R" to enter the recovery console, it tells me there is no drive present.
So I am wondering if I can repair Windows while the drive is attached to my other system (Win7 Ult. 64bit) as a USB external.
I can access all the data on the drive while it's connected via USB, but I don't know if I can do anything else.
Please advise.

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