Rebooted after installing Intel Rapidstore and now windows is borked

twist3d0n3 · 27 Oct 2015 at 15:46

Hey all,

So i rebooted win10 and i can't get into windows unless i unplug every drive bar the windows ssd.

diskpart tells me when all drives attached that my c: drive is actually now my f: drive (all others are mixed around) and it won't recognise a winstall unless i unplug everything (to which i can access windows totally fine).

i've tried bootrec/fixmbr, boot, rebuildbcd etc, still no dice. even manually created a boot file in bcdedit (which works when no other drives are attached!).

any ideas before i do a fresh install? really ****ing ****ed that seemingly it's ****ed itself for no good reason.

cheers in advance for any suggestions.

linktoinsanity · 27 Oct 2015 at 16:46

It sounds like it's booting from a different drive? Check the boot order maybe?

randal · 27 Oct 2015 at 16:49

Presumably you're seeing INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE? If so, the ol' IDE/AHCI/RAID registry key switcheroo at fault here?

Have a search about for setting the driver mode in the registry. Something like this: http://blog.rolpdog.com/2012/03/enabling-ahciraid-on-windows-8-after.html

twist3d0n3 · 27 Oct 2015 at 17:45

ok so after fannying around for about 5 hours with this, i've discovered that the raid driver appears to be a bit buggered. i've got it to boot but only with ahci enabled, can't do it with xhd raid through bios (gigabyte x58 mobo if that makes any difference).

i've tried reinstalling anything raid/intel related but she's just not having it... any ideas?

i checked that link randal, unfortunately that reg key wasn't present for me...

thanks!