Windows 10: HDD Crash and Optane Uninstallation

My laptop was running on an HDD which was accelerated by a 16GB Optane Memory Module. A few days ago, the HDD crashed and the system now prepares for automatic repair, screen goes black for a while and ends up on the windows recovery environment whenever I turn it on.I like how Optane sped things up on the HDD but now I have decided to install an SSD.Since the HDD has crashed and I cannot boot into Windows, simply disable Optane from IRST and proceed with replacing the HDD with a new SSD, and have basically zero knowledge about BIOS/UEFI, I am completely stuck.I looked for videos or guides abo

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Macrium and Optane

Confusion persists here:
Forums

Whilst this suggests success restoring with Optane driver in an Acronis boot disk:
Restoring Intel Optane + HDD to a new drive in ATI 2016 | Acronis Forum

Yet I can see what the Macrium guy is getting at- the memory is just a cache- and its presence does not influence the content of the HDD.

I'd suggest an experiment or two is in order. For example, can you create an image when normally booted, normally functioning Optane, and then mount that image and explore it successfully?

Then try restoring it, both in normal mode (assuming data disk only) and using the boot disk.

 

Intel Optane Error, Can't Uninstall

Hi Mike

I do wish Microsoft and Intel would resolve these bugs in the updates, if it is not Intel RST, it is Intel Optane . . .

The best thing to do would be to go to either the Intel or Dell Websites, then download and install the current version of Intel Optane, then restart your PCand uninstall Intel Optane, re-installing Intel Optane should fix its installer,allowing you to then
uninstall it . . .

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/29008...

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optane and HDD

curiouser and curiouser , I was looking over hardware info on my hp
and can't find info on the 1 T Hdd (spinner) which is in raid formation
with the Optane. all info programs, (speccy, Belarc advisor, Cpuid,
Systeminfo, Device manager and Disk management) all show up as
Intel Optane+932gbhdd16.8. No Info on the hdd itself.
I guess I could disable optane to see what the hdd is (seagate, wd, whatever).
but it just seems weird That you can't get the info the lazy way.