Update below ??
So I had an SSD caching my HDD but one day my PSU failed which caused my PC to enter an infinite reboot loop which in turn locked it from booting at all because of that safety feature(there is a safety feature, right?)
After replacing the PSU, I cleared the CMOS for my PC to be able to boot.
I logged in and windows warned me that it had to shut down to finish some updates. Before doing that, I remembered that clearing the CMOS might have disabled SSD caching so just to be safe I opened the Intel Rapid Storage Technology program and disabled and re-enabled the HDD cache. After rebooting, I remembered that I had to change the SATA mode on the HDD to RAID for the cache to work, so I went into the BIOS and did so. [strike]I saved the changes and rebooted which caused a BSoD half-way through the Windows logo. I went back to the BIOS and changed the HDD back to AHCI and I still got the BSoD on the Windows logo. Tried RAID again and the same happened.
I know you're not supposed to just change SATA modes like that but I though I should have reverted back to RAID since that's how I installed Windows
What could I do to resolve the issue?[/strike]
UPDATE:
After running startup repair and a chkdsk I was finally able to get through the Windows logo, however, I still can't get to the login screen instead seeing only my cursor in a black background
I will create a new thread since this problem seems to have derived from a different origin
So I had an SSD caching my HDD but one day my PSU failed which caused my PC to enter an infinite reboot loop which in turn locked it from booting at all because of that safety feature(there is a safety feature, right?)
After replacing the PSU, I cleared the CMOS for my PC to be able to boot.
I logged in and windows warned me that it had to shut down to finish some updates. Before doing that, I remembered that clearing the CMOS might have disabled SSD caching so just to be safe I opened the Intel Rapid Storage Technology program and disabled and re-enabled the HDD cache. After rebooting, I remembered that I had to change the SATA mode on the HDD to RAID for the cache to work, so I went into the BIOS and did so. [strike]I saved the changes and rebooted which caused a BSoD half-way through the Windows logo. I went back to the BIOS and changed the HDD back to AHCI and I still got the BSoD on the Windows logo. Tried RAID again and the same happened.
I know you're not supposed to just change SATA modes like that but I though I should have reverted back to RAID since that's how I installed Windows
What could I do to resolve the issue?[/strike]
UPDATE:
After running startup repair and a chkdsk I was finally able to get through the Windows logo, however, I still can't get to the login screen instead seeing only my cursor in a black background
I will create a new thread since this problem seems to have derived from a different origin