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In place windows 11 upgrade results in a BSOD after the first restart.
I just had his happen with the most recent Windows Release Update. My system is a AMD 520 motherboard with 5600g CPU. I use the AMD Raid with Hard Drives and have an NVME SSD for Windows Install. Suddenly after the Windows Update, my nvme ssd bood drive is showing up under my raid controller, rather than a seperate drive in the bios. It turns out that AMD updated their RAID drivers to allow NVME as a part of RAID, but the windows update didn't include the new RAID driver, so after the Windows update, my PC would BSOD on startup. I updated the bios and tried to remove the drive from the RAID controller but that caused me to lose the boot drive. I tried multiple times to repair using Windows repair disk and nothing worked. I did try to log into safe mode but it failed.
So I installed a fresh Windows 11 and started updated everything, but my RAID drives would not show up in Windows. I tried rebooting but I was back to BSOD at boot.
To fix the problem I finally downloaded the new AMD Raid drivers and put it on a USB drive. I went to install a fresh Windows 11 again, but this time I installed the nvme driver from the USB drive that had the AMD Raid drivers on. You have to do this before installing Windows 11 and suddenly all of my raid drives and nvme ssd showed up in the list of drives to install Windows 11 to.
I can't believe that Microsoft would have an udate that breaks Booting into Windows 11 when using RAID because AMD's new drivers don't come with the new Windows Update. This all happened because AMD is now including NVME drives in their Raid drivers.