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I'll be honest. That always seems like a good policy. I'm not a certified IT but as far as my household goes where I live, way out in the Canadian Northern Gateway, I'm the only IT and that's as good as it gets. I've always been a Johnny-come-lately and about the last guy to learn something new. I'm not sure where to post this and I'm kind of old but not completely lost in cyberspace when it comes to PCs as I've worked with them daily for the better part of over two decades. Having stated this much, I decided to share some of what I expressed to a friend in an email because I would like to regard everyone here on a friendly basis. The original email was entitled: Perhaps I shouldn't have drawn attention to myself because by installing Win 11 on my work station it seems many interesting (but not necessarily good) things have ensued.
As some of you might deduce from reading this missive, I've been busy. I wouldn't mind some input or suggestions. I sure wouldn't mind getting my good ole IRST UI back in my boot screen and running in my UEFI (BIOS) but it would seem that many changes are underway and as usual I've failed to stay on top of things. So any friendly suggestions are welcome.
Intel® Rapid Storage Technology and Intel® Optane™...
Here is my slightly edited email to my friend:
So as it turns out, not only has Optane reached EOL but so has IRST in addition to Win 8.1.
This is an extremely big deal for me as I'm running three IRST arrays and two LSI arrays on one single PC.
So let's review: First Windows 8.1 reaches EOL. Two days later my Win 8.1 Pro won't boot anymore.
After numerous attempts using all the tricks I know it occurs to me that these procedures will not work.
My Win 8.1 Pro (purchased directly from the Microsoft Store) license key, used on one PC only, namely my X99 E-WS USB 3.1 work station was locked out on my LSI RAID 10 array and I simply could not access my OS or, even my data, via the good ole Windows Manager. LSI had me locked out of my logical drive.
As you know I attempted a genuine Windows backup recovery where I received a warning: "AiNVMe.sys file is missing".
I proceeded to correct this issue following instructions on Intel's web site. This is where I learned that my backup on my
Intel Optane based NVMe (memory) failed because Optane had reached EOL. So not only had Win 8.1 reached EOL but
also the functionality of my NVMe memory. (I'm wondering if this might also be why my Kingston NVMe memory failed.)
By resorting to an older backup and using the Windows exclusions to ensure that only drive C and D were to be recovered
the end result was that nearly all my storage drives were consequently written over with old partitions, which resulted in a
mass scramble to recover my partitions and approx 20 TB of lost data. But a horrible thing happened: I could not roll back.
The procedure had written over ALL my other backups. Try as I might (trust me) I tried. All my backups were gone.
So now I'm at the forensics end of things, scraping through Kaspersky's morgue files on my data drives. I have about 11 TB of data left to sift through. Wish me well. So instead of reinstalling an EOL OS I decided to attempt a Win 11 Pro install using my legitimate Windows 8 digital license key purchased directly from Microsoft's own store. I will spare you the excruciating details involving Microsoft's loose instructions on how to do this with only TPM1 on your system board. There is no way that I want to relive those horrendous memories. It took me all of two days to get a legitimate ISO compliments of you-know-who to properly function on a system board using only TPM1.
Yeah, I did it. And this is where the fun begins: Unlike Win 8.1 where practically all the drivers are generously provided in their generic forms many of the drivers I required were not supplied with Win 11 Pro. The OS was quick to point out that my Intel NVMe was in need of a driver but did not provide one until I uninstalled the old one. After installing the standard driver my 660P NVMe seemed to work normally but during this process of getting my Win 11 Pro all caught up on drivers and configured correctly I did not notice that something else had happened:
My UEFI UI for IRST vanished. When I boot up my PC no longer displays all that pretty green text that tells me everything is running fine. If I dig deep in my UEFI I can find the arrays and I can access them via Windows Manager in the OS, but the official pre-boot, colored text, IRST UI is nowhere to be found. The arrays work. The drives are there and functional. This is very hard on an OCD guy like me. Methinks the time has come to reinstall Linux. Three EOL's in a single week is too hard on my nerves.
Anyhoo
Time to get back to work
ETU
As some of you might deduce from reading this missive, I've been busy. I wouldn't mind some input or suggestions. I sure wouldn't mind getting my good ole IRST UI back in my boot screen and running in my UEFI (BIOS) but it would seem that many changes are underway and as usual I've failed to stay on top of things. So any friendly suggestions are welcome.
Intel® Rapid Storage Technology and Intel® Optane™...
![]() | Intel® Rapid Storage Technology and Intel® Optane™... The Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) and Intel® Optane™ Memory applications will no longer be updated (end-of-life notice). www.intel.com |
Here is my slightly edited email to my friend:
So as it turns out, not only has Optane reached EOL but so has IRST in addition to Win 8.1.
This is an extremely big deal for me as I'm running three IRST arrays and two LSI arrays on one single PC.
So let's review: First Windows 8.1 reaches EOL. Two days later my Win 8.1 Pro won't boot anymore.
After numerous attempts using all the tricks I know it occurs to me that these procedures will not work.
My Win 8.1 Pro (purchased directly from the Microsoft Store) license key, used on one PC only, namely my X99 E-WS USB 3.1 work station was locked out on my LSI RAID 10 array and I simply could not access my OS or, even my data, via the good ole Windows Manager. LSI had me locked out of my logical drive.
As you know I attempted a genuine Windows backup recovery where I received a warning: "AiNVMe.sys file is missing".
I proceeded to correct this issue following instructions on Intel's web site. This is where I learned that my backup on my
Intel Optane based NVMe (memory) failed because Optane had reached EOL. So not only had Win 8.1 reached EOL but
also the functionality of my NVMe memory. (I'm wondering if this might also be why my Kingston NVMe memory failed.)
By resorting to an older backup and using the Windows exclusions to ensure that only drive C and D were to be recovered
the end result was that nearly all my storage drives were consequently written over with old partitions, which resulted in a
mass scramble to recover my partitions and approx 20 TB of lost data. But a horrible thing happened: I could not roll back.
The procedure had written over ALL my other backups. Try as I might (trust me) I tried. All my backups were gone.
So now I'm at the forensics end of things, scraping through Kaspersky's morgue files on my data drives. I have about 11 TB of data left to sift through. Wish me well. So instead of reinstalling an EOL OS I decided to attempt a Win 11 Pro install using my legitimate Windows 8 digital license key purchased directly from Microsoft's own store. I will spare you the excruciating details involving Microsoft's loose instructions on how to do this with only TPM1 on your system board. There is no way that I want to relive those horrendous memories. It took me all of two days to get a legitimate ISO compliments of you-know-who to properly function on a system board using only TPM1.
Yeah, I did it. And this is where the fun begins: Unlike Win 8.1 where practically all the drivers are generously provided in their generic forms many of the drivers I required were not supplied with Win 11 Pro. The OS was quick to point out that my Intel NVMe was in need of a driver but did not provide one until I uninstalled the old one. After installing the standard driver my 660P NVMe seemed to work normally but during this process of getting my Win 11 Pro all caught up on drivers and configured correctly I did not notice that something else had happened:
My UEFI UI for IRST vanished. When I boot up my PC no longer displays all that pretty green text that tells me everything is running fine. If I dig deep in my UEFI I can find the arrays and I can access them via Windows Manager in the OS, but the official pre-boot, colored text, IRST UI is nowhere to be found. The arrays work. The drives are there and functional. This is very hard on an OCD guy like me. Methinks the time has come to reinstall Linux. Three EOL's in a single week is too hard on my nerves.
Anyhoo
Time to get back to work
ETU
- Windows Build/Version
- Windows 11 Pro
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- WIN 11, WIN 10, WIN 8.1, WIN 7 U, WIN 7 PRO, WIN 7 HOME (32 Bit), LINUX MINT
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- DIY and DELL
- CPU
- Intel i7 6900K (octocore)
- Motherboard
- ASUS X99E-WS USB 3.1
- Memory
- 128 GB CORSAIR DOMINATOR PLATINUM (B DIE)
- Graphics Card(s)
- NVIDIA 1070
- Sound Card
- Crystal Sound (onboard)
- Monitor(s) Displays
- single Samsung 30" 4K and 8" aux monitor
- Screen Resolution
- 4K and something equally attrocious
- Hard Drives
- A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W
Ports X, Y, and Z are reserved for USB
Drive types consist of the following: Various mechanical hard drives bearing the brand names, Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital. Various NVMe drives bearing the brand names Kingston, Intel, and Team Group. Various SATA SSDs bearing various different brand names.
RAID arrays included:
LSI RAID 10 (WD Velociraptors) 1115.72 GB
LSI RAID 10 (WD SSDS) 463.80 GB
INTEL RAID 0 (KINGSTON HYPER X) System 447.14 GB
INTEL RAID 1 TOSHIBA ENTERPRIZE class Data 2794.52 GB
INTEL RAID 1 SEAGATE HYBRID 931.51 GB
- PSU
- SEVERAL. I prefer my Corsair Platinum HX1000i but I also like EVGA power supplies
- Case
- ThermalTake Level 10 GT (among others)
- Cooling
- Noctua is my favoritet and I use it in my main. I also own various other coolers.
- Keyboard
- all kinds.
- Mouse
- all kinds
- Internet Speed
- 360 mbps - 1 gbps (depending)
- Browser
- FIREFOX
- Antivirus
- KASPERSKY (no apologies)
- Other Info
- I own one laptop: A Dell touch screen with Windows 11. (Okay, I lied. I forgot about the other laptops my girls returned to me for replacement). I own many desktop PCs . I am a father of five and have provided PCs and laptops for all of my family, most of which I have rebuilt or simply built from scratch.