Intel Optane Revisited

glasskuter · Mar 9, 2022

The way Dell explained it to me (though some of their words weren't small enough for me to understand) is that I can add an optane module and then, through the Optane management app, pair that module with a HDD thereby boosting the HDD performance to SSD like speeds. It steps in to allow users to run large capacity HDDs at this ssd speed (which are cheaper than large capacity m.2 drives)

The-Hive · Mar 9, 2022

All that trouble I had trying to create Dual boot because of Optane. @NavyLCDR saved the day with his guide
see post #47 here Can't Create Dual Boot
It worked for me first time, I hope some of this is helpful, If you reinstall from iso have the 2 folders mentioned ready on a flash drive

brummyfan · Mar 9, 2022

Winuser said:
How does one change a BIOS setting in Safe Mode?

You can change to Safe boot through Run-> msconfig, reboot and enter BIOS, switch to AHCI, reboot and switch to normal boot, we need to go through this route in some laptops because system won't boot if we change it under normal boot.

glasskuter · Mar 9, 2022

Winuser said:
How does one change a BIOS setting in Safe Mode?

One doesn't. Safe boot is a windows boot. Entering Bios is totally outside of a windows safe boot, before the computer gets to the step of entering Windows, safe or not. Sure, you can change msconfig and set it to safe boot, but once you enter bios before windows boots in safe mode, it's the exact same bios you get without going through this unnecessary step to get there.

Winuser · Mar 9, 2022

glasskuter said:
One doesn't. Safe boot is a windows boot. Entering Bios is totally outside of a windows safe boot, before the computer gets to the step of entering Windows, safe or not. Sure, you can change msconfig and set it to safe boot, but once you enter bios before windows boots in safe mode, it's the exact same bios you get without going through this unnecessary step to get there.

I really wasn't expecting an answer. I know the BIOS is accessed before the OS loads.

Winuser · Mar 9, 2022

glasskuter said:
The way Dell explained it to me (though some of their words weren't small enough for me to understand) is that I can add an optane module and then, through the Optane management app, pair that module with a HDD thereby boosting the HDD performance to SSD like speeds. It steps in to allow users to run large capacity HDDs at this ssd speed (which are cheaper than large capacity m.2 drives)

You have an SSD, Let the Optane memory be a forgotten memory. No pun intended. :)

Winuser · Mar 9, 2022

brummyfan said:
You can change to Safe boot through Run-> msconfig, reboot and enter BIOS, switch to AHCI, reboot and switch to normal boot, we need to go through this route in some laptops because system won't boot if we change it under normal boot.

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The access to the BIOS is before Windows loads. There is no way one needs to be in Safe Mode.

glasskuter · Mar 9, 2022

Winuser said:
really wasn't expecting an answer.

My response It was more for the benefit of op and others than it was for anyone who already knew it.

brummyfan · Mar 10, 2022

Winuser said:
The access to the BIOS is before Windows loads. There is no way one needs to be in Safe Mode.

Yes, that's what I thought but when I tried to switch to AHCI mode from Intel RST with Optane, my laptop went to "Trying to repair PC" loop

Sammy888 · Mar 10, 2022

Just my half cents. I found Optane did boost my HP laptop (at the time) performance. However, that laptop caused me a lot of problems even when using a third party drive image software like Acronis. I returned it back and bought a Lenovo instead without Optane.

Winuser · Mar 10, 2022

brummyfan said:
Yes, that's what I thought but when I tried to switch to AHCI mode from Intel RST with Optane, my laptop went to "Trying to repair PC" loop

I'm not sure if you need to do just a boot repair or if a clean install is needed.

Winuser · Mar 10, 2022

brummyfan said:
Yes, that's what I thought but when I tried to switch to AHCI mode from Intel RST with Optane, my laptop went to "Trying to repair PC" loop

This thread might help. Changing from the RST Optane driver to AHCI in an existing Windows 10 - Windows 10 Help Forums

brummyfan · Mar 10, 2022

Winuser said:
This thread might help. Changing from the RST Optane driver to AHCI in an existing Windows 10 - Windows 10 Help Forums

Thank you, please read my post 17 in the previous page.

Hazel123 · Mar 10, 2022

brummyfan said:
Yes, that's what I thought but when I tried to switch to AHCI mode from Intel RST with Optane, my laptop went to "Trying to repair PC" loop

In my case there was no option to change to AHCI - I replaced the optane SSD with an NVME and did a clean install.

That "trying to repair" loop was what I had trying to reinstall a system image, made on the optane ssd, onto a non optane drive. It's basically the computer can't boot and is searching for something.

brummyfan · Mar 11, 2022

Hazel123 said:
In my case there was no option to change to AHCI - I replaced the optane SSD with an NVME and did a clean install.

That "trying to repair" loop was what I had trying to reinstall a system image, made on the optane ssd, onto a non optane drive. It's basically the computer can't boot and is searching for something.

The method of switching to Safe boot I have followed to avoid clean install and keep my OS and data intact.

cereberus · Mar 11, 2022

Hazel123 said:
In my case there was no option to change to AHCI - I replaced the optane SSD with an NVME and did a clean install.

That "trying to repair" loop was what I had trying to reinstall a system image, made on the optane ssd, onto a non optane drive. It's basically the computer can't boot and is searching for something.

If you have a Macrium Reflect image, and Hyper-V, try booting it in Viboot. If that works, it should be possible to inject correct drivers from the clean install into the Reflect image.