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AMD Ryzen 9 3900X on a Asus Dark Hero VIII ROG Crossfire MB.
I have 64 gb (4x16) G.skill Neo Z RAM.
The primary drive is a Gigabyte Aorus Gen4 M.2 NVME drive in the primary NVME slot (a Gen4 slot).
My CPU and GPU are in a custom waterloop with no leaks.
I have been on this current configuration for almost 2 years now.
I did the latest windows update last night when I was prompted and after it finished I got the BSOD Inaccessable Boot Device error. I am unable to get into windows at all nor can I get into safe mode. I tried resetting my PC and it went through the process but then when it was done I got the same error. After that I updated my UEFI BIOS and it did not help. I did some research online and found most could fix it by disabling VMD in the bios but I have no such setting and all my RAID options are disabled,
I have also tried startup repair and a few other things but nothing seems to work. I've double checked and everything is connected and secure as it should be.
EDIT: I was able to put in a smaller NVME drive and install windows on that. After I got the basics set up I tried doing a repair on the original drive using DISM and it said it completed all repairs but I still get the Inaccessable Boot Device error. Is there a way to fix the original drive from this temporary one so I can boot to the original Gigabyte drive?
EDIT2: Note that when I tried to uninstall the update Windows told me it was not able to uninstall the update. I think it may have not been able to access the drive because the update may have somehow encrypted the drive even though Bitlocker was off and VMD was off.
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Hello I am having exactly the same problem. After I have done troubleshootingbit says I must install windows using a disk. Problem is I don't have a disc the windows systems was free and installed itself and it would update as time goes on. But after the last update I cannot log in or uninstall the last updates in the troubleshoot screen because it won't allow me.
Please excuse my language I have no tech language at all but I understand.
There is no issue with that drive now. I have scanned it and checked it multiple times and it's running fine. I seriously think it was a disk encryption issue from that Windows update.
Hello I am having exactly the same problem. After I have done troubleshootingbit says I must install windows using a disk. Problem is I don't have a disc the windows systems was free and installed itself and it would update as time goes on. But after the last update I cannot log in or uninstall the last updates in the troubleshoot screen because it won't allow me.
Please excuse my language I have no tech language at all but I understand.
This may or may not be the same issue. It might be a good idea to create a new topic and explain what's going on.
Creating your own post usually means it will get more attention.
