Solved trying to switch from IDE to AHCI but I followed instructions to modify registry and enter safe mode, and it fails to work

Do you have drives with 2 different operating systems on them hooked up all the time? From my personal experience doing this at one time, with 11 on my M.2 and 10 on my regular sata drive, my M.2 drive got corrupted somehow, go figure. Now I remove my M.2 “it’s on a PCIe card” when I want to boot with another OS. Years ago this didn’t use to be an issue, I sometimes wonder if it’s 11 that don’t like this.

will this make it boot the Samsung SSD, I set volume 5 to active

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
* Disk 0 Online 465 GB 1024 KB
Disk 1 Online 698 GB 1024 KB
Disk 2 Online 931 GB 1024 KB
Disk 3 Online 465 GB 17 GB

DISKPART> select disk 3

Disk 3 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> detail disk

Samsung SSD 860 EVO 500GB
Disk ID: EB7FD27D
Type : SATA
Status : Online
Path : 4
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1100)#ATA(C04T00L00)
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 5 D System Rese NTFS Partition 549 MB Healthy System
Volume 6 E NTFS Partition 446 GB Healthy
Volume 7 NTFS Partition 792 MB Healthy Hidden

DISKPART> active

There is no partition selected.
Please select a partition and try again.

DISKPART> select volume 5

Volume 5 is the selected volume.

DISKPART> active

DiskPart marked the current partition as active.

DISKPART> detail disk

Samsung SSD 860 EVO 500GB
Disk ID: EB7FD27D
Type : SATA
Status : Online
Path : 4
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1100)#ATA(C04T00L00)
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
* Volume 5 D System Rese NTFS Partition 549 MB Healthy System
Volume 6 E NTFS Partition 446 GB Healthy
Volume 7 NTFS Partition 792 MB Healthy Hidden

DISKPART>

RD Mercer said:

Do you have drives with 2 different operating systems on them hooked up all the time? From my personal experience doing this at one time, with 11 on my M.2 and 10 on my regular sata drive, my M.2 drive got corrupted somehow, go figure. Now I remove my M.2 “it’s on a PCIe card” when I want to boot with another OS. Years ago this didn’t use to be an issue, I sometimes wonder if it’s 11 that don’t like this.

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I do, in fact have 3 windows installs. I know of win 11, win 10, and I think another is win 7
What I had been doing was cloning drives and then upgrading to next version of OS, and leaving prior drives in the PC

nope, it still boots the other drive. must be a way to select which drive boots.

Disconnect the WDC win10 drive, win 11 SSD has error at boot

Reading about creating a recovery drive. Doing that on a win 11 pro 7530 with 32gb ram laptop with nvme and usb 3.1 , and it is so slow.......
it's taken 5 min for green progress bar to get only that far.

win 11 could have reinstalled at least once already

seriously why is it so slow? thumb drive is usb 3 and 256gb, and windows only said it needed 16gb of space!

some report 8 hours to make a recovery drive. Question is, both PC are win 11 pro 23H2, is it going to be specific to the Dell laptop or will it also work on this older desktop? See could be a total waste of time... progress bar shows 1/3 done

well, even if I screw up the OS thoroughly using the recovery drive created on another PC, I have a working win 10 using AHCI on the WDC drive in this PC. I could image it again using the Samsung program. Then upgrade to 11 again and leave the WDC windows 10 out of the PC

This is a learning time for me. The progress bar is half way done. it is sort of fun in a way.
Jumping through hoops here, all because wanted AHCI enabled in windows. Linux does this automatically switching, nothing a user needs to do. Odd the older sata wdc drive accomplished the AHCI switchover, but the Samsung ssd got corrupted.

sdowney717 said:

Disconnect the WDC win10 drive, win 11 SSD has error at boot

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Probably because 11 is corrupted, I got the same screen after booting with 10 and 11 both hooked up, when I tried to boot into 11.

recovery drive finished a few minutes ago.

wish recovery drive would give some feedback. I booted the usb and it shows the windows blue flag and nothing. keyboard numlock key still can toggle off and on. it is very slow? or is it dead?
I am assuming this recovery drive is a bootable drive?
I do see some kind of different instructions here

well, that's a bust. It booted, I told it to repair the startup, said diagnosing, repairing, then it restarted and same blue screen I posted earlier.

Only other option given by recovery drive was a fresh reinstall of the os

I will just clone the drive over.

Cloning now, I assume this will work as it worked couple years ago. I downloaded the new version of Samsung Magician.

Said can select up to 3 partitions, which is not clear as I do not see how to select or not select, I see 3 shaded looking partitions in the program.

The clone worked ok.
Now running win 10 pro on the Samsung SSD with AHCI enabled
It did not copy the recovery partition.
Which, I don't know why, But that was no help at all earlier.

Currently downloading win 11 pro, the 6.4gb file and will do the setupprep method to upgrade again...

interesting that your online activated account PC will say 'windows professional' during the upgrade to 11 process, not 'windows 10 professional'
Here you can see the MSI MS-7596 motherboard with 8gb, and it runs win 11 fine, quickly with an SSD.

Working good on win 11 again, here is some system info, going to rename this pc

Not saying the PC is superb, it is functionally good for simpler games, web browsing etc...
Grandkids play Roblox on this, and it works great.
It was a free PC to us, I did buy the SSD few years go and then it sat for a couple years unused.
It is connected to a 32" HDTV. Has a GTX260 video cardd which is ok. FX6300 CPU.

So this makes 6 windows PC for now in the house. And it can upgrade to win 24H2 later.

After the clone, I left the WDC win10 loaded drive connected, all I did was change boot order in the bios.

Window 11 install recreates the recovery partition
Makes it easier to do a reset, but I read you can do that with a usb windows install

sdowney717 said:

you can see all the drives in this pc, some are linux distos

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Just a quick tip. You can add names to partitions to easily identify your drives.
Right click a partition, select Properties. Add a name, click apply.

Scott said:

Just a quick tip. You can easily add names to partitions to easily identify your drives.
Right click a partition, select Properties. Add a name, click apply.

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yes, a pain to tell them apart otherwise, Other partitioners give more info on the drive and that makes it easier.

I've been reading this and if I were doing it I'd 'bite the bullet', forget restoring the clone and just do a completely fresh install of the desired version, then if no backup of data has been done try to access the clone to copy the data needed and install any programs needed.

Just a note, Windows usually formats as NTFS and Linux defaults to ext4 formatting which on External/USB drives Windows can't work with, always prompts to format when trying to access them, haven't tried but probably the same with internal drives.