It is unable to boot into windows .... but that is because of SATA Mode AHCI instead of Optium without Raid. By changing SATA Mode back to Optium without changing the rest of the settings I mentioned Windows boots just fine.
disabling Fast Boot (BIOS) should add a delay and display the POST and print a message that states: 'Press F2 to enter bios' (it doesnt affect windows from booting)
And disabling Fast Boot (Windows 10 Power Options) is supposed to stop Windows from marking the drive as mounted (and preventing Linux from seeing it) even when powered off.
These are two different settings for 2 different systems that do 2 completely different things. And neither of these settings should prevent windows from booting but they can interfere with installing a new OS.
Since the hard drive is not being detected during live disk and this is said to be a common problem if you fail to disable the windows fast boot (I'm not all that familiar with win10, i have refused to use it personally .... ever) so the fact that it can block linux from installing is pure hear-say to me so I'm just going on what i have read. I am guessing that even though i have tried to disable the windows mode in 2 separate ways its still active (i guess - since I cant see the hdd from live disk)
How do I check if the windows fast boot mode is actually disabled? What other things can prevent a harddrive from being detected by the live disk when the USB drive shows up (which means the south bridge drivers are functional and the SATA drives should be visible?)