At Wit's End - Not sure what to do next with this image
Very long story but will try to condense.
First - using ATI 2021. Making backups on a full 1 week with incremental daily for SSD (Win10 OS) and Data drive.
My machine - ASUS z87 deluxe; Win10 Pro (this was a free in-place upgrade from Win7 Pro by MSFT). Running 512MB Crucial SSD (OS), Raid Array in Raid1 x2 WD 8TB Sata (main windows data drive), another 2x other drives with various data Sata; Tib files located on NAS (Synology) backups done weekly/daily incremental
Issue: This last weekend we had a substation Power Outage in our town (major power interruption) that took down my computer while I was gone. Came home and screen was sitting at F1 run BIOS Setup.
Fast forward:
- Did not realize at the moment that "F1 run BIOS setup" meant the CMOS battery was not healthy and that's why BIOS didn't reboot
- Raid1 Array in BIOS was displaying degraded
- Win10 OS (on SSD wouldn't boot)
Diagnosis:
- couldn't see SSD on initial debugging so figured power outage took it out. Ordered new one and figured the ATI 2021 images would restore this quickly and be back in business (was that a miscalculation)
Since Then To Get to Bootable OS (sometimes):
- Created bootable ATI2021 USB drive - UEFI and Legacy
- Installed SSD, Formatted and DISKPART Clean
- Wasn't entirely sure what version of SSD configuration I had (i.e. MBR/Legacy or UEFI/GPT)
- Tried many combinations of UEFI/GPT and MBR/Legacy using ATI 2021 Bootable USB stick with many failures along the way.
- Found 2 combinations for bootable OS using ATI recov ery Image of the SSD to the new Crucial 512MB (with exceptions ro booting and not sure why)
- UEFI/GPT (SSD)-
- Initially thought this was the configuration I was running. So I ran ATI Bootable USB (UEFI)- With add disk in GPT mode from my latest "Full restore disk image" - kept all drives connected including "Degraded Raid". This failed even after trying bcdboot changes to the image.
- Removed all drives except the new Crucial 512MB SSD, Recovered image, and ran bcdboot for the \Windows drive
- a UEFI Windows Boot Manager was added to my BIOS sequence
- This image booted to Win10 - Hurray
- Now added back the "Degraded Raid1" and couldn't get any form of OS boot to work. UEFI Bios kept displaying the Raid1 Data Array as the boot drive and wouldn't even recognize the Crucial 512MB as a bootable disk
- Reran bcdboot serveral times - still not bootable
- In BIOS broke the Raid1 array into two separate drives. Still not able to boot.
- Pulled the 2x 8TB Raid1 array drives and put 2x brand new 8tb Drives - Create same Raid1 Array Volume Name in Bios (empty) and tried to Boot many times - with no success.- COMPLETELY STUMPED
- Researched my history on the upgrade from Win7 Pro to Win10 Pro and discovered at the time of the upgrade the original SSD was MBR and saw motherboard screen captures with no UEFI logo's on the SSD in boot sequence.
- MBR (SSD) -
- Ran Diskpart Clean on SSD and booted ATI 2021 Bootable (LEGACY) - to load image in MBR format
- Loaded image as complete disk (i.e. MBR and Track 0 selected with all partitions).
- Restarted computer with newly empty RAID1 Created only at BIOS level. With repeated Win10 stop screens. - Again STUMPED
- Reran bcdboot after checking volumes that held the \windows partition. Still no boot.
- Pulled the newly created Raid1 Array and viola the Computer booted again - just like above with UEFI/GPT.
I am stumped as to what is peculiar about having the Raid1 array present - it's a data array to hold Win10 OS (documents, downloads, etc). Is causing the Win10 image from ATI 2021 to keep generating various Stop Codes.
Note: I've also used a Win10 ISO (from Original Win7 to Win10 upgrade) to conduct a Windows Repair operation with No success getting a repaired ATI Image for boot OS - keep getting Stop Codes.
Any ideas - why the ATI 2021 image recovery is not booting while Raid1 array is present or in the "creation state from Bios"?
Right now I'm typing this on the machine without any supporting drives loaded. MSinfo says now -
-
- OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Version 10.0.19045 Build 19045
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name HMORGAN-VIDEO
System Manufacturer ASUS
System Model All Series
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU All
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770K CPU @ 3.50GHz, 3501 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 0303, 8/19/2013
SMBIOS Version 2.7
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode Legacy
BaseBoard Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
BaseBoard Product Z87-DELUXE/QUAD
BaseBoard Version Rev 1.xx
Platform Role Desktop
Secure Boot State Unsupported
PCR7 Configuration Binding Not Possible
Windows Directory C:\windows
System Directory C:\windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.19041.3570"
User Name hmorgan-video\hmorgan
Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 16.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 16.0 GB
Available Physical Memory 7.39 GB
Total Virtual Memory 32.0 GB
Available Virtual Memory 23.5 GB
Page File Space 16.0 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Kernel DMA Protection Off
Virtualization-based security Not enabled
Device Encryption Support Reasons for failed automatic device encryption: TPM is not usable, PCR7 binding is not supported, Hardware Security Test Interface failed and device is not Modern Standby, Un-allowed DMA capable bus/device(s) detected, Disabled by policy, TPM is not usable
Hyper-V - VM Monitor Mode Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Second Level Address Translation Extensions Yes
Hyper-V - Virtualization Enabled in Firmware No
Hyper-V - Data Execution Protection Yes
- OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Pro


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