Windows refuses to boot (SOLVED)

[LaggingPotato]

Acer Nitro 5 laptop.

Tried updating to Windows 11 since 10 support is ending soon. Made the bootable usb, booted in, deleted all partitions, and installed. However, after installation, I am faced with 'inaccessible boot device' BSOD. I also tried Windows 10.

If I take the drive out and plug it into another laptop, it boots perfectly.
I only got Hirens to boot off the internal drive, no other OS (including Ubuntu, win10, win11, win8.1, win7)

Booting into recovery after the BSOD and listing disks in diskpart, no disks show up. no volumes either.
Booting into Hirens works just fine though.
Using one partition (NTFS) for both Windows and bootloader files doesn't work
Using exFAT also doesn't work (both results produce no bootable devices being listed in BIOS)

Anyone know a way to solve this? My BIOS offers extremely limited options, basically the only thingI can change is the boot order and TPM. No option to switch UEFI to CSM even.

[atxcyclist]

Is it possible that the laptop needs a BIOS update for Windows 11 compatibility? It could be that there's an issue with secure booting requirements, and by installing Windows 11 it may have changed the boot partition where it's no longer supported on your Acer. Acer has been offering their Nitro line for a while, what hardware (mainly specific processor) is in your particular model?

[LaggingPotato]

3 minutes ago, atxcyclist said:

Is it possible that the laptop needs a BIOS update for Windows 11 compatibility? It could be that there's an issue with secure booting requirements, and by installing Windows 11 it may have changed the boot partition where it's no longer supported on your Acer. Acer has been offering their Nitro line for a while, what hardware (mainly specific processor) is in your particular model?

As mentioned I also tried Windows 7, 8.1. and back to 10 with the same result

core I5 11400H is the cpu in this thing

 

 

[atxcyclist]

12 minutes ago, LaggingPotato said:

As mentioned I also tried Windows 7, 8.1. and back to 10 with the same result

core I5 11400H is the cpu in this thing

 

 

Some partition might be problematic on that machine after Windows 11 was installed. I'd try putting your SSD into another machine that can see it, completely remove all partitions, then re-install the drive into your Acer and attempt to reinstall Windows. I would also check and see if there's a BIOS update, because even though 11th gen systems support the features needed for Windows 11, older BIOS revisions may not support some of the secure boot settings/configuration. 

 

EDIT: There are BIOS revisions for what I believe is the model you have, AN515-57. One of them even looks like it addresses a recover failure.

[LaggingPotato]

4 minutes ago, atxcyclist said:

The boot partition might be problematic on that machine after Windows 11 was installed. I'd try putting your SSD into another machine that can see it, completely remove all partitions, then re-install the drive into your Acer and attempt to reinstall Windows. I would also check and see if there's a BIOS update, because even though 11th gen systems support the features needed for Windows 11, older BIOS revisions may not support some of the secure boot settings. 

As mentioned I have installed on the Acer after removing all partitions and on another device after removing all partitions (I always remove all partitions). On another device Windows installs just fine, however when I plug the drive into the Acer I get the BSOD.

 

There is a BIOS update, I'll give it a go tomorrow when I wake up, but I don't care for Windows 11 anymore I just want a working computer. The above has been done with Windows 11, 10, 8.1, and 7. None booted.

 

 

[LaggingPotato]

13 hours ago, atxcyclist said:

Some partition might be problematic on that machine after Windows 11 was installed. I'd try putting your SSD into another machine that can see it, completely remove all partitions, then re-install the drive into your Acer and attempt to reinstall Windows. I would also check and see if there's a BIOS update, because even though 11th gen systems support the features needed for Windows 11, older BIOS revisions may not support some of the secure boot settings/configuration. 

 

EDIT: There are BIOS revisions for what I believe is the model you have, AN515-57. One of them even looks like it addresses a recover failure.

Updated BIOS from 1.7 to 1.20, nothing changed.

 

UPDATE: SOLVED I figured it out. There is no option to switch off of RAID in BIOS, so I didn't even think it would be in RAID. Installed a RAID driver and it worked.