I got a new AIO cooler and needed to also move to a bigger desktop case.

So I moved all of my internal components from one case to the other and also removed the old AIO and installed the new one. Besides that, I might have damaged my PSU in the process so I had to replace that too. It wouldn’t turn on anymore so I just replaced it this morning.

I tried booting into Windows and it went to a BSOD saying cache_manager was the problem.

I tried to get a recovery in there and Windows tried to automatically repair drives but kept coming up on this same error.

I created a KDE Neon live USB and booted into that. Zero issues. I then manually formatted my Windows OS disk in KDE and also removed the Windows bootloader. Basically trying to start from a scratch system with no Microsoft any.

Still getting the BSOD, even with the Windows 11 USB installer I created from their creation tool. I am able to get to that purple screen in the installer and see a cursor to move around with my mouse. That’s the part in the Windows installer where you tell it what edition and which drive you want to choose. But after a few moments, it errors out to a BSOD.

Now I’ve actually went ahead and installed KDE Neon to my system. I use it on my laptop, but I need Windows on this computer for work (it’s my personal computer I game with but also use for remoting in for work).

I’m going to try redoing my USB as a new Windows 11 installer and see if that goes through, but wondering if there’s anything else I can do for this? Anything else to try?

  • NutinButNetOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Thank you so much for your help.

    So this morning I ended up deleting all my drives. I have 4 different SSDs/HDD in my system and I originally figured I would just delete the OS SSD and then let Windows discover the other drives once Windows was reinstalled. I realized last night it’s just mostly games I can redownload so I went ahead and deleted every partition in Linux this morning. Thankfully Linux helped me move over everything that was actually important before deleting.

    Then I went and tried the Windows installer again and now it works.

    I have added all my drives except one. I get an I/O error when trying to add it in. I’m guessing this was my culprit all along. And I remember that I did do something to this drive when setting up everything yesterday which was add a cover over top of it to help with cooling. I’m not sure if this has any impact, maybe I damaged it or something. But I’m not too worried about losing it.

    Thank you so much for your help! I truly appreciate it.