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I'm not sure if I reset the CMOS. I was considering giving it a try, but never purposefully did anything that would as far as I know. Ehh I guess I'll just leave my disk set to IDE for now then.

For me it was set to AHCI by default, I hadn't messed with it at all until I read about it. Hm, whats the difference? Which one should I set my disk to after I set up my drivers, AHCI, RAID, or IDE?

Solution Okay so I did not realize that I would need to reinstall windows completely, but thankfully I found a simple solution. After researching possible ways around completely reinstalling windows to save myself the trouble, I found a tip If you go into BIOS and then change the disk mode...

Update- for anyone encountering this as well, dont reinstall windows as the solution. I chose that below as the best answer because it lead me to the real solution. I explain it in my post which is near the bottom. It involves setting your disk mode to IDE, in summary. So Black Friday warranted...