Error When Installing Windows 10 on new Laptop HDD

simrick said:

Here's another thing you may be able to try:
Put the W10 installation media back in and begin the install process.
At the first screen, press and hold SHIFT Key + F10 key.
This will open a command prompt, and you could try the commands at that point.

Code:

bcdedit /enum {badmemory}

Code:

bcdedit /deletevalue {badmemory} badmemorylist

It may get W10 installed, but I'd still be wary if any of the RAM is going bad. Memtest86 will answer that.

I had tried those commands before hand (found them when I googled my second error) to no avail. When I try and use either one the cmd prompt says
"The boot configuration data store could not be opened
The requested system device cannot be found"

I wasn't sure how to test my memory since I can't get into Windows like you said, so I definitely appreciate the link to memtest. I just finished running a test with it all the way through, and it came back with 0 errors.

Also, I updated some of my system specs in my profile.

I'm guessing it is because the SATA controller is set for RAID in the UEFI/BIOS and Windows probably needs a RAID driver.

NavyLCDR said:

Windows was loading a boot time manufacturer provided driver for the Raid controller. I've never seen one that could not be changed to AHCI in UEFI/BIOS though.

More info here:
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthrea...t-AHCI-OR-RAID

There are settings in UEFI/BIOS to enable/disable RAID and set AHCI mode.

Thank you guys for all the info!

As for there being something unique about my original drive, I'm not sure, the only difference I originally thought they had was that one was 1TB, and the new one was 500GB. But from reading the posts in that link, apparently the stock drive in my laptop comes configured on RAID. Where as if I look at physical disk info in my BIOS with the new drive installed, it's says the status is Non-RAID, and the controller type is AHCI.

So now I'm stuck figuring out why the heck the only option I have in my SATA Configuration is RAID, when ACHI should also be there.