Can't Boot After Switching To AHCI

Mar 25, 2013

I have a SSD and tried to switch to AHCI without having to reinstall. A guide suggested i had to do to device managers and then select my IDE items, select manually install driver and install the driver for AHCI

Well now i can't boot windows 8 anymore. I get an error message before the loading is finished, and i don't even have the time to read it my computer will instantly reboot and do the same thing over and over again

Setting the BIOS to AHCI will just cause another error. Windows8 won't boot and will tell me i need to repair it.

Automatic repair from install CD isn't useful. I don't have any system restore point.

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