Dell Optiplex 5090 Boot Up

[Bory Brason]

Good Morning,

I am having the most frustrating issue. I have an abundance of Dell Optiplex 5090 desktops. (i5 11th Gen, 8GB single stick, 512GG NVME SSD)

I am using them to help my local preschool as they need to replace all their machines with machines that run Windows 11. The preschools original machine had 1tb HDD with Windows 10.

I have used Macrium to clone the 1tb HDD to both a 1tb nvme SSD (short form) and a Sata SSD. However neither are detecting when I plug into the Dell.

Originally I get an issue with a BSOD stop code. INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.

Then it reboots and I get Windows recovery options. In both options it appears the SSD cannot be seen. Be it SATA or NVME. The old SSD does work fine. If I try getting into the command prompt during recovery I seem to be in X drive to an non writable partition.

I am sure this is a EUIFI setting or something I am getting wrong and I know this is probably amateur! However both SSD's will boot in other machines. Just why not any of the Optiplex 5090.

I have included the first few bios screen shots. Sorry for the bad images.

Any help would be greatly apprecaited.

[Bjoolz]

Try changing the SATA mode to AHCI in the last screenshot.

[Bory Brason]

Thank you. I will try that. Oddly I have also been able to update the Bios but get exaclty the same problem. It's so odd.

When I do other checks it says there are no drives connected. I find it odd that its getting this result for both SATA and nVME

 

[KidKid]

5 hours ago, Bory Brason said:

Good Morning,

I am having the most frustrating issue. I have an abundance of Dell Optiplex 5090 desktops. (i5 11th Gen, 8GB single stick, 512GG NVME SSD)

I am using them to help my local preschool as they need to replace all their machines with machines that run Windows 11. The preschools original machine had 1tb HDD with Windows 10.

I have used Macrium to clone the 1tb HDD to both a 1tb nvme SSD (short form) and a Sata SSD. However neither are detecting when I plug into the Dell.

Originally I get an issue with a BSOD stop code. INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE.

Then it reboots and I get Windows recovery options. In both options it appears the SSD cannot be seen. Be it SATA or NVME. The old SSD does work fine. If I try getting into the command prompt during recovery I seem to be in X drive to an non writable partition.

I am sure this is a EUIFI setting or something I am getting wrong and I know this is probably amateur! However both SSD's will boot in other machines. Just why not any of the Optiplex 5090.

I have included the first few bios screen shots. Sorry for the bad images.

Any help would be greatly apprecaited.

Try plugging the boot drive into a different NVME/SATA slot on the motherboard. 

[Bjoolz]

4 hours ago, Bory Brason said:

Thank you. I will try that. Oddly I have also been able to update the Bios but get exaclty the same problem. It's so odd.

When I do other checks it says there are no drives connected. I find it odd that its getting this result for both SATA and nVME

 

Yeah, it could be the Intel RAID driver. You often have to manually load manually before installing Windows or it won't see any drives. Changing the SATA mode to AHCI disables Intel RAID/RST (Not 100% sure if it changes it for NVMe so maybe check for a dedicated Intel RST setting).

[Bory Brason]

This worked. THANKS. THANK YOU ALL