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Do you have a SSD or HDD as the main drive?
Regarding the Recovery...
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Please edit your profile with ALL your hardware specs. It will help us to help you
System Specs - Fill in at Ten Forums
Do you have a SSD or HDD as the main drive?
Regarding the Recovery...
Add or Remove Keyboard Layouts in Windows 10
Partition letters are assigned by the OS. If drive 1 has no Windows on any partition you can delete the partition.
The recovery partition should be at least 850M
KB5034441: Windows Recovery...
The instructions on the post above are easy and simple.
The down side:
- The EFI partition isn't the first
- There is no MSR partition
- There is a EFI partition between C and the recovery...
If drive 0 is GPT you can just create a EFI partition and load the boot manager on it.
diskpart
select disk 0
select vol c
shrink desired=100
create part EFI
format quick FS=fat32 label=EFI...
Read my post 23
What do you want to do?
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
diskpart
list vol
exit
The boot device is disk 0 partition 1 (Windows partition)
The boot manager is on the System partition (Disk 1 partition 1)
I suggested on post 8 to do a clean install as UEFI-GPT. All partitions will be on the correct sequence
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I can give you instructions on how to create a System partition on drive 0,...
On a Legacy-MBR, BIOS transfer the boot sequence to a drive MBR that will transfer to a master boot manager on an Active partition (drive 1 - System partition). This master boot manager will transfer...
On a Legacy-MBR the boot manager is on a partition set as Active. From post one the active partition is on the System partition on drive 1.
If you detach drive 1 and 2 can you boot from drive 0?...
Bad things happens when the hands works faster than the brains.
Once again, a boot able GPT drive needs a EFI partition.
It is because the OS is in one drive and the boot manager on another.
Don't just convert the drive to GPT with other software or it won't boot.
Your disks are a big mess.
If you do a clean install on a drive with another drive that has Windows it will install the OS in the drive but use the drive that has Windows as the boot manager.
Main...
I have a similar problem as I have a US computer and keyboard but my region is Brazil and Win 11 insist to load a Brazilian keyboard option. What I want is International US keyboard.
Keyboard setup...
As zbook already mentioned:
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Studynxx, is the issue solved?
I did test the two drives: the system (SSD) and data (HDD) drives. I ran chkdsk x: /f and run Crystal disk info. No problems found.
If the SSD from the old dead PC had Windows on it you should delete all partitions, not only format the Windows partition.
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
diskpart
list disk (it...
Fast startup
What happens if you don't take out the PSU cable of the monitor and when it enters windows you move the mouse or hit esc ?
Is fast start enable? If it is, turn it to disable. Fast start is more part...
How big was the J: partition?
To find all the partitions on the drive, open a CMD window as administrator and type:
diskpart
select disk 0
list part (It will list all partitions)
exit (to exit...
If your computer doesn't meet the requirements you can still upgrade from Win 10 to Win 11 with a workaround.
How to upgrade from Win10 or Win 11 to Win 11 23h2 - A guide | Windows 11 Forum
Thanks Dalchina. How can I enable the boot log from a WinPE (I can't boot the main drive)?
My wife's computer is quite old (Z68 - i7 2600k, 4+4 G DDR3 2133, 128G SSD + 1T HDD). Win 10 - 64b 22h2
It was working and one day it began to fail during startup. It began to boot from the SSD and...