Need help with recovering windows.

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  1. Posts : 4,131
    Windows 3.1 to Windows 11
       #11

    Since this is Windows 10 Recovery USB (I assume, although recovery showing a prior windows 8 OS)
    Insert the Recovery USB into any working PC and see if you have a reconstruct.wim in the sources folder...

    The New HDD (does not appear to be brand new) as it shows a prior OS,,,
    The drive is showing locked due to a pending DISM command...

    You can use the advanced option > command prompt
    type> Diskpart
    type> select disk 0
    type> clean
    type> exit

    then go into recovery and select reset
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  2. Posts : 14
    Win 10
    Thread Starter
       #12

    Kyhi said:
    Since this is Windows 10 Recovery USB (I assume, although recovery showing a prior windows 8 OS)
    Insert the Recovery USB into any working PC and see if you have a reconstruct.wim in the sources folder...

    The New HDD (does not appear to be brand new) as it shows a prior OS,,,
    The drive is showing locked due to a pending DISM command...

    You can use the advanced option > command prompt
    type> Diskpart
    type> select disk 0
    type> clean
    type> exit

    then go into recovery and select reset
    No, there is no windows 8 installation, that picture is one I found on the internet. My screen does not show any option to continue at all, just the troubleshoot and turn off computer.

    The drive does not show up in diskpart, but I can run a test on it in BIOS which is telling me Bios can see it, but diskpart can not.
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  3. Posts : 18,424
    Windows 11 Pro
       #13

    Is the bios setting for the SATA controller set to RAID or AHCI? It should be AHCI

    Also make sure the SATA port the drive is connected to is enabled in BIOS
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  4. Posts : 14
    Win 10
    Thread Starter
       #14

    NavyLCDR said:
    Is the bios setting for the SATA controller set to RAID or AHCI? It should be AHCI

    Also make sure the SATA port the drive is connected to is enabled in BIOS
    It is in AHCI and there is no setting to turn on or off the sata port that I can find.

    Is it possible that the new drive might not be formatted properly for diskpart to see it?
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  5. Posts : 18,424
    Windows 11 Pro
       #15

    nistka93 said:
    It is in AHCI and there is no setting to turn on or off the sata port that I can find.

    Is it possible that the new drive might not be formatted properly for diskpart to see it?
    It's possible, but I would think diskpart would at least see the physical drive itself. Have you tried connecting it to a different SATA port? I would also try making a bootable USB/DVD/CD of Kyhi's recovery drive:
    Windows 10 Recovery Tools - Bootable Rescue Disk - Windows 10 Forums

    Boot the computer from that, see if the drive shows up. Try MiniTool Partition Wizard. His recovery drive also has a low-level disk formatting utility.
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  6. Posts : 14
    Win 10
    Thread Starter
       #16

    NavyLCDR said:
    It's possible, but I would think diskpart would at least see the physical drive itself. Have you tried connecting it to a different SATA port? I would also try making a bootable USB/DVD/CD of Kyhi's recovery drive:
    Windows 10 Recovery Tools - Bootable Rescue Disk - Windows 10 Forums

    Boot the computer from that, see if the drive shows up. Try MiniTool Partition Wizard. His recovery drive also has a low-level disk formatting utility.
    Well, its a laptop, so there is no other port to try. I will get another usb and try that tool.
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  7. Posts : 14
    Win 10
    Thread Starter
       #17

    Well diskpart now can see the drive, but I am still unable to restore windows.
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  8. Posts : 18,424
    Windows 11 Pro
       #18

    nistka93 said:
    Well diskpart now can see the drive, but I am still unable to restore windows.
    Why can't you restore Windows now?
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  9. Posts : 4,131
    Windows 3.1 to Windows 11
       #19

    Insert the Recovery USB into any working PC and see if you have a reconstruct.wim in the sources folder...
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  10. Posts : 14
    Win 10
    Thread Starter
       #20

    Kyhi said:
    Insert the Recovery USB into any working PC and see if you have a reconstruct.wim in the sources folder...
    Yes, it is there, but for some reason the recovery software is not finding any image when in my laptop. I even put another image of a different laptop on the drive and it doesn't see that one either. I'm not sure why.
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