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Help i ruined my pc (software)
so... i didnt like win11 and tried switching back to win10, made a bootable usb with rufus win10.iso and started with that.
then when i tried to install win10 and selected my internal drive (its the only drive) i got the error "usb or IEEE 1394 not supported" so i looked up the error and followed the instructions as goes
it appears my drive was locked from bitlocker... the pc is a used laptop i bought on ebay and now i was locked out from the device. i thought okay then simply erase the drive problem solved but no not so easy...
i did this:
boot from usb drive
press Shift + F10
enter the commands:
diskpart
list disk
select disk #
clean
i did that with all partitions (except the usb ofc) , now when i boot from usb and reach the progress where you must select a disk there are no results it is all just a blank area, prior before "cleaning" all the partitions with diskpart it did show the disk but i had the error preventing me from installing, now after cleaning.. there is no disk showing up at all...
using the list disk or list volume command with diskpart shows only the usb drive, it is as if the internal hard drive doesnt even exist anymore, as if it vanished, a ghost basically.
i screwed up bigtime. how do i recover the device from here?! i tried all the options from the bootable windows usb but none works, the last idea i had was that the drive doesnt show because it is pure unallocated disk space, if thats correct how do i allocate the diskspace? or maybe thats just another shot in the dark on my end, really screwed up right there...