WARNING - if you installed the OS with the BIOS set to "IDE Emulation" mode, then switching the BIOS to AHCI will render the..

Shapinity

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I would like to know how to fix this, i've been trying pretty much anything i could find on the net. But right now, my computer wont even let me inside to the desktop again. It keeps popping up with the message that it has to repair, and i have to pick an OS but there isn't any. I have an SSD in, and i have the driver. I try to read the drivers in the repair, and it find an OS for me, but when i repair and restart the computer, it just goes right into repair mode again. I found this on the net:
"WARNING - if you installed the OS with the BIOS set to "IDE Emulation" mode, then switching the BIOS to AHCI will render the system unbootable because the IDE disk drivers that it will have been using don't know how to talk AHCI. There's a fairly simple fix for this, let us know if you need it."
I was hoping that this might would be able to help me.
 

Shapinity

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And then what? When it start up, it says the no hard disc is detected.... when i bought the PC, the user had installed Windows, so i was able to see that it could start up. But he gave me a driver, that i had to use for the SSD. But it require that i am able to reboot the computer and install another version of windows. But it wont let me do that. It just says "CD-Rom Boot priority 35-1 and then it restarts and nothing happens. I was able to enter my desktop and use the computer, but it gave me the errors everytime i started it.
Not everytime i start up the computer, the same errors comes, but instead it opens system recovery... and i dont know why. I am able to pick language, and then it repairs and then i restart it, and the same problem appears again.
 
Are your drives visible in BIOS? If so if you can not fix it with boot order then your problem is bigger and re install of the OS is next step. If not you are dealing with anywhere from bad connections to faulty hardware like bad drives or motherboard!