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I am currently on a laptop running windows 11 and was looking to dual boot into arch preferably. However when I tried installing arch no recognised drives could be found.

I then found by searching that this was just to SATA. I had three options in my BIOS for it. Disabled, ACHI, and RAID.

The laptop was currently on RAID but if I changed the SATA to either disabled or ACHI windows either doesn’t have a boot option or blue screens when I try to.

I have system restore points on windows but I am confused from things online on what the best approach is. Do i set to disabled and fully reinstall windows / (can i use a restore point if i do?) or is there a way to allow windows to boot with SATA disabled.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks :)

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  • Windows 11 only supports booting in UEFI mode from GPT disk. Commented Apr 13, 2024 at 0:11

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You need to start Windows in Safe Mode, then change the disk controller from RAID to AHCI mode, then put Windows back into normal boot mode.

I described how to do this here: https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/22/linux_nonapproved_laptop/

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    Exactly what I needed this was perfect thank you! Commented Apr 19, 2024 at 17:32

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