Understood. Thank you!
UHD Drive Tool works perfect. Saves time, effort, headache on software/firmware side.
ASUS BW-16D1HT fw: 3.03 reset to fw: 3.01
2012 Gigabyte board with Windows 10
What I learned Tips:
Big Picture:
- Change BIOS SATA to IDE
- Get Windows to boot into a Safe Mode.
- Right away, Re-boot from within Safe Mode into a normal Windows session. This loads IDE drivers into normal Windows (and loads winio.sys and others) session.
- Run UHD Drive Tool in normal Windows session. Reboot to BIOS.
- Change BIOS SATA back to ACHI
- Start Windows normally.
My fight was with motherboard and Windows 10.
- In BIOS set both SATA controllers to IDE. My board has 2 controllers, one is Marvell chipset, other is on-board default chipset. Save BIOS and Reboot.
- F-keys/any keys not working with my board to boot into Windows Safe Mode directly.
- I let Windows reboot constantly (2 times) until it started Automatic Repair Mode.
- Selected Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > Startup > Restart.
- Windows reloads with screen with Startup options. Select one of the startup Safe Modes. Computer reboots automatically in Windows Safe Mode selected.
- In Safe Mode, I logged in (maybe not necessary) and then right away rebooted (to a normal (non Safe Mode) Windows session)
- Now normal Windows is running with IDE drivers not AHCI. ( my error: I ran UHD Drive Tool in Safe mode ànot all Windows drivers loaded).
- Now run UHD Drive Tool to update firmware.
- Reboot to BIOS. Change back to ACHI. Save BIOS and Reboot.
- Here I needed to reboot back into a Safe Mode (steps 3 to 6) to load ACHI drivers again, then reboot from Safe Mode to get to back to normal running Windows session.
- Everything is back to normal with a working drive.
