While performing the Clean Installation of Windows, you must select a hard drive partition on which you want to install Windows. The selected hard drive partition should be empty; otherwise, ...

Some users have reported that the installation process is interrupted when they try to install Windows OS on their hard disk. As soon as they press the Install now button in the Windows Setup process, ...

EDIT: It did - changing that setting back to "AHCI" resulted in a, "This operating system failed to start", message when I tried to boot XP. Changing the BIOS back to the "IDE" setting didn't fix that ...