Computer error has turned into a nightmare

[Cdog580]

Hey everyone,

A few days ago my computer gave me a blue screen error on startup which, after some research, turns out to be a corrupted boot. So since i had everything backed up to backblaze I'm thinking well this sucks but isn't a total loss. I go to reinstall windows and it won't let me install to my M.2 drive. I was able to delete and format the drive but i get an error saying that windows can nit be installed on this partition. So basically I am looking for guidance on my next steps. I recently made my computer able to run windows 11 by enabling my TPM chip and UEFI. I had secure boot enabled but disabled it for this situation to try and reinstall windows. I'm really looking for any guidance you all can give me. I'm going to get a hold of backblaze to get my data shipped to me but i need this computer to be running again and I can't get windows installed. 

 

**Final part,

I am running storage spaces with two 3 TB HDD in Raid 1. Will I loose that raid array? just want to figure out how to get that back online when i get windows installed. Thank you all for any guidance!

[An0maly_76]

From what I understand, Windows 11 is getting a reputation for having issues. I wonder if that isn't your whole problem.

[DigitalGoat]

45 minutes ago, Cdog580 said:

Hey everyone,

A few days ago my computer gave me a blue screen error on startup which, after some research, turns out to be a corrupted boot. So since i had everything backed up to backblaze I'm thinking well this sucks but isn't a total loss. I go to reinstall windows and it won't let me install to my M.2 drive. I was able to delete and format the drive but i get an error saying that windows can nit be installed on this partition. So basically I am looking for guidance on my next steps. I recently made my computer able to run windows 11 by enabling my TPM chip and UEFI. I had secure boot enabled but disabled it for this situation to try and reinstall windows. I'm really looking for any guidance you all can give me. I'm going to get a hold of backblaze to get my data shipped to me but i need this computer to be running again and I can't get windows installed. 

 

**Final part,

I am running storage spaces with two 3 TB HDD in Raid 1. Will I loose that raid array? just want to figure out how to get that back online when i get windows installed. Thank you all for any guidance!

As long as you can get Windows installed again the Storage Spaces array should be fine, the config information is saved to the array itself, not Windows, from my understanding.

Have you checked that the M.2 drive is correctly set as GPT and is set in BIOS to the correct access mode? I don't see why the BIOS setting should have changed, but worth double checking.

You can run Diskpart from the Windows install media (I think SHIFT - F10 brings up a command prompt) and use it to check/ change the disk type and also delete any partitions that may be causing Windows install an issue.

Windows is best installed to unallocated space, maybe don't format or partition the drive.

Sometimes just re seating the M.2 drive can cure some issues.

[lbxplaycatYT]

2 hours ago, Cdog580 said:

Hey everyone,

A few days ago my computer gave me a blue screen error on startup which, after some research, turns out to be a corrupted boot. So since i had everything backed up to backblaze I'm thinking well this sucks but isn't a total loss. I go to reinstall windows and it won't let me install to my M.2 drive. I was able to delete and format the drive but i get an error saying that windows can nit be installed on this partition. So basically I am looking for guidance on my next steps. I recently made my computer able to run windows 11 by enabling my TPM chip and UEFI. I had secure boot enabled but disabled it for this situation to try and reinstall windows. I'm really looking for any guidance you all can give me. I'm going to get a hold of backblaze to get my data shipped to me but i need this computer to be running again and I can't get windows installed. 

 

**Final part,

I am running storage spaces with two 3 TB HDD in Raid 1. Will I loose that raid array? just want to figure out how to get that back online when i get windows installed. Thank you all for any guidance!

Try got from 7 up it you can like install 7 then 10 then 11

[1SHOWER1]

Sometimes when you wipe a M.2 in certain ways or with certain programs, i.e. asus drive cleaner it screws up the drive itself.  I had that happen to a samsung evo and now It wont even detect my drive...

[Cdog580]

20 hours ago, An0maly_76 said:

From what I understand, Windows 11 is getting a reputation for having issues. I wonder if that isn't your whole problem.

Thanks for the reply. Sorry to be unclear, The computer was running windows 10 But i set it up when windows 11 came out so that it would meet all of the requirements

[Cdog580]

9 hours ago, 1SHOWER1 said:

Sometimes when you wipe a M.2 in certain ways or with certain programs, i.e. asus drive cleaner it screws up the drive itself.  I had that happen to a samsung evo and now It wont even detect my drive...

Thanks for the input! I can see the drive when installing windows it just doesn't let me install windows 10 on it. I do have an evo m.2 drive. Since the MBR corrupted i wonder if the drive got bricked.

[Cdog580]

20 hours ago, DigitalGoat said:

As long as you can get Windows installed again the Storage Spaces array should be fine, the config information is saved to the array itself, not Windows, from my understanding.

Have you checked that the M.2 drive is correctly set as GPT and is set in BIOS to the correct access mode? I don't see why the BIOS setting should have changed, but worth double checking.

You can run Diskpart from the Windows install media (I think SHIFT - F10 brings up a command prompt) and use it to check/ change the disk type and also delete any partitions that may be causing Windows install an issue.

Windows is best installed to unallocated space, maybe don't format or partition the drive.

Sometimes just re seating the M.2 drive can cure some issues.

Thanks for the thorough answer! I'll give these a try and keep this thread updated!

[Cdog580]

Ok So I don't know which of these steps ended up fixing the problem but here is how i got the computer running again and windows to install:

 

1: I removed the M.2 SSD From the computer and installed it into a different computer. I then formatted the drive and transferred a file onto it to see if the drive itself was functional.

 

2: After confirming that the drive worked i reinstalled it into the computer. I then Installed ubuntu as an OS to ensure the SATA controller on the motherboard was functioning properly. I installed ubuntu with UEFI without having a single issue. 

 

3: I then Went and re-flashed my BIOS with the latest update just in case it had something to do with it.

 

4: I redownloaded the Media Creation Tool from Microsoft, Formatted the USB drive with quick format unchecked to do a full format and finally created a bootable flashdrive with windows 10

 

After selecting the UEFI version of the flash drive from the boot menu and finally windows installed successfully. I hope this helps anyone in the future. This was defiantly a hard one but i finally have a working computer and thank god i use backblaze to backup my data or it would almost all be gone from the C drive.