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In the last three months it appears that normal Windows updates have broken the boot partitions on two machines.
A 2022 ASUS PC running Windows 11 22H1 in July and in September a 2013 Dell running Windows 10 22H22.
Both machines had updates deferred until the DEFCON rating was 4 or above.
On both machines, the problem occurred after the first ‘normal’ restart after the updates. Yes, I have recovered but it is annoying and time consuming.
Does anyone have any advice?
Personally, during last few months, I witnessed several Dell computers have changed their SATA operation mode swithched from AHCI to RAID, thus unable to boot (“No bootable devices found”).
Fix was obvious – switch back to AHCI mode.
not sure about what caused it exactly – I suppose it was BIOS update .
So I check the storage operation mode everytime when I face issue like this.
Dell Latitude 3420, Intel Core i7 @ 2.8 GHz, 16GB RAM, W10 22H2 Enterprise
HAL3000, AMD Athlon 200GE @ 3,4 GHz, 8GB RAM, Fedora 29
PRUSA i3 MK3S+
Agreed, I changed that. AHCI is completely legit setting, with one SSD configuration.
Also, while RAID selected, Windows installation do not see any hard drive, unless I load Dell RAID drivers during the installation.
My opinion is, that updates should respect the setting I have, not change it arbitrarily.
Dell Latitude 3420, Intel Core i7 @ 2.8 GHz, 16GB RAM, W10 22H2 Enterprise
HAL3000, AMD Athlon 200GE @ 3,4 GHz, 8GB RAM, Fedora 29
PRUSA i3 MK3S+
I forgot to say that on the old Dell I had to use Macrium recovery to create a new boot partition.
Both PCs are running again. They are mainly running the same apps with no unusual software. One PC has MalwareBytes and McAfee; the other has MalwareBytes and Norton. They have run these without problems for at least three years.
I’m just going to put it down to the wonders of the Universe, unless it happens to my next PC as well!
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