Inaccessible_boot_device

Francis93

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Hello Eightforums!

I have tried so many, many Windows 8 installation attempts (in fact I wasted 2 DVDs, time and effort) but all led to one error "INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE". After the installation (100%), my PC rebooted and the Windows Developer Preview bootscreen begins to load and after a few minutes, a blue screen with a sad emoticon appears saying that my PC encountered a problem which needs to restart and that I have to search the Internet for the problem (Inaccessible Boot Device). I searched for it on Google but Windows 2000 and older versions of Windows came out in the search results.

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 on Intel Core 2 Quad 2.33GHz, 2GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 9400GT and 320GB HDD (split into two and there's a special drive for Windows 8). ESET Smart Security 5, EMET 2.0 and UAC (always notify).
 

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23 views but no reply? This has something to do with AHCI. Anybody knows how to turn off AHCI? My value is set to "3" but I don't know what to do with it. Do I still have to turn off AHCI in my BIOS also?
 

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Firstly, 9 hours isn't a grand amount of time for a reply. Be patient, sir, and continue searching.

Now, as to the problem... yes, if your problem is AHCI, then you have to turn it off in the BIOS. That is going to be a personal experience, every BIOS is different.

However, it may be possible to 'trick' W8P into doing this. I stole this from another forum:
"I first set AHCI off for the Windows 8 setup, then immediately after the first boot during initial setup, but before setup continued I set AHCI back on. After setup completed I had Windows 8 running in AHCI mode, hope this helps someone."

And I did that with a search, found one place, what mentioned this post. So it's out there, and I found it in about 3 minutes.

How that'll work on your dual boot may be interesting... You need to search like this in Bing or Google:

+"Windows 8" +AHCI +"Dual Boot"

Then maybe add -'"Windows 2000"' and/or '-"Win2K"' or other keywords as you find them... Like this:

+"Windows 8" +AHCI +"Dual Boot" -"Windows 2000" -win2k

And you'll find that answer much quicker, if it's out there.

Good luck!
 

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AHCI improves HDD performance, the older IDE mode will run but, won't have the performance of AHCI.

Most people recommend AHCI, as do I.
 

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