I recently had to clone a new laptop from a HDD to an nVME disk which caused the device to fail the boot process with “Inaccessible Boot Device” blue screen.
After spending some time trying to get the BCD store fixed and rebuilding the EFI partition the device still refused to boot .
I realized that the system is probably not able to mount the windows drive due to a driver issue so this lead me to do the following to get the device operational again.
- Clone the HDD to the nVME
- Boot the system into the recovery shell (Command Prompt)
- Locate the storage controller driver (inf, cat and sys files)
- Use DISM to inject the driver into the offline windows installation
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dism /image:D:\ /Add-Driver:D:\Path_to_driver\Inf_filename.inf
(Where “D:\” is the drive letter that has the current windows installation)
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- The above command should complete without any errors and the system should now boot
Just as a side note I had the same issue happen on another device and I was forced to change the controller mode from AHCI to RST mode in the bios and inject the Intel Rapid Storage drivers into the offline windows image to get the system to boot up properly.
