I wanted to use a Intel Rapid Storage controller in "RAID" mode, but Windows 7 didn't like me changing that option and refused to boot, just showing me a very generic bsod.
After quite some time I found a solution:
First start from the installer disc and go to recovery options, open a command prompt.
Look for the system drive, on my system it was just drive C, so typing c: changed the current directory to the base directory on that drive.
Next load the registry: reg load HKLM\TempSys C:\Windows\System32\SYSTEM
Now you can run regedit.exe, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\TempSys, and look in the control sets in there for iaStorV directories.
In all iaStorV directories change the option Start from 3 to 0.
After modifying the registry you need to unload it: reg unload HKLM\TempSys
Reboot and just hope it works.
