If I have a single SSD connected in RST mode (No RAID configured), is there a chance that I lose data in my main partition if I switch to AHCI?
I'm wanting to reinstall Windows 10 on my machine after I corrupted the system partition on my SSD. I also don't have access to the recovery partition.
What I'm wanting to do before reinstalling is to see the current state of the SSD and back up the existing Windows partition to an external drive by booting Ubuntu and transferring the files. If I go into the bios and switch the SATA mode from RST to AHCI, is there a chance that I might lose any data in the primary partition? Given that the recovery and system partitions aren't seemingly accessible anyway, I don't care about those.
Edit: For clarification, the machine doesn't boot into Windows 10 because the system partition is corrupted. I'm going to have to reinstall windows, I just want to make sure that I back up my main partition with all my data before I do so. I'm intending to install ubuntu to dual boot so that I can some other means to access to the ssd.
