Can't boot into windows

[Aggravated Salmon]

did a new build, it booted and i installed drivers for the wifi card and while installing drivers for the graphics card, halfway the system shut down and restarted. The windows loading wheel would come out and after 5 seconds, there will be an extremely brief glitching of the screen. no matter, what i do, it remains the same. attempting a system restore ends in an error, attempting repairs fail after 20 mins. i cannot afford to reinstall windows due to the risk of losing over 70GBs of personal photos and videos.

note there was no overheating

BIOS showed SATA in AHCI mode

UEFI mode on

 

i5-2400

Asrock H77-Pro4-M

4GB (2 x 2GB Team Elite Dual Channel)

Nvidia GTX 460 with custom air cooler (Prolimatech)

Seasonic 430GB

EVGA case

Crucial MX500 250GB SSD (Windows 10 Pro 64bit)

Netgear A6210 Wi-Fi Adapter (USB 3.0)

 

the SSD was harvested from a previous system which had a

 

Xeon X3470 (3.9Ghz)

MSI P55-GD80

4GB (2 x 2GB Team Elite Dual Channel)

AMD Radeon R9 270X

Seasonic 430GB

Crucial MX500 250GB SSD (Windows 10 Pro 64bit)

TP-LINK ARCHER-T6E Wi-Fi Adapter (PCI-E)

 

maybe it is because it was previously on IDE mode??

idk, any help appreciated.

[TempestCatto]

If it was in a different mode, you'll need to switch back to that mode in the BIOS. So if the SSD was in IDE mode and is now in AHCI mode, switch it back. That's my only guess here.

[daddrian]

You know you don't have to format the disk to install windows again yes? If you have enough space you can install windows in the same partition, the old windows files will all be put in a folder named windows.old. BTW my old Radeon HD 3450 (I had it in 2013) kinda did the same, would crash the windows when installing newer drivers, I had to use 2009-2010 drivers on it to work