In my opinion, good thermal paste never needs to be replaced.
Try to find a Asus S530FA service manual.
Open the back cover. My Asus has tork screws so you may need small tork screwdriver.
Try to...

On a MBR drive:
- System partition - NTFS - 100M
- C: partition - NTFS - 80G (if it will have no data, otherwise as big as you wish)
- Recovery - partition - NTFS -1G
- Data Partition - NTFS - As...

There is no Recovery partition on the drive.
Why did you deleted the partition?
Did you disabled the recovery environment on the Recovery partition (reagentc /disable) before the delete partition?...

If it doesn't show in disk manager it's a sign that the drive maybe is dying. Backup ASAP.
Download extract and run CrystalDiskInfo. It's a portable. Doesn't need to install.

My advice is to use Macrium Reflect and start over.
Clean the drive. Don't format it.
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:

diskpart
select disk 1
clean
convert mbr
exit

You're making everything more difficult then it is.
Good luck

As drive 1 is MBR, to make it boot able:

Open a CMD window as administrator and type:

diskpart
select volume G
active
exit
bcdboot G:\Windows /s G: /f BIOS
exit

Did you read my post # 11? Why can't you tell us if the drive is MBR or GPT?
I gave you two options. Witch one you want.

And can tell that Macrium Reflect is the best cloning software on the...

There is no active partition on drive 1 so it won't boot.

Seems to me a good solution

First of all we need to see if the drive is MBR or GPT.
I gave you a simple way to check.

Another way:
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:

diskpart
list disk
exit
On the last...

I would say that you cloned some MBR partitions from MBR drive 0 into a GPT drive 1.
A GPT drive has a MSR partition (16G) that MBR doesn't.

The cloned 1T boot partition on drive 1 also isn't...

- There is nothing like a clean install, that is, detach any other drives leaving on only the target drive, boot from a Win 10 / Win 11 USB installation drive, delete ALL partitions on the target...

Please post a whole window Disk Manager image of ALL your drives. Don't forget to expand the columns so we can read them. How to Post a Screenshot of Disk Management
If you have a MiniTool or ...

And the fan and / or HDD bearing will fail soon.

And why you need a 600M EFI partitions if MS does it with 100M?
I would have just deleted the first recovery partition. To be perfect you can use Minitool to move the EFI partition to the beginning...

The computer was ready to upgrade.

Everything you did wasn't necessary.
You had a 100M EFI partition and now you have a second on with 500M. What for?
You had a 830 M Recovery partition. Good...

To start the upgrade:
Under Win 10
- Download the USB Win 11 23h2 iso file using MCT
- Disconnect from the internet.
- Right click on the iso file and select mount.
- On the virtual drive...

Playing with partitions is a risky task so I suggest you create a Drive image on an external drive (if you have one) using Macrium or Aomei.

You didn't inserted your computer specs under My...

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The best is Macrium Reflect but there is no more free version. Maybe Bree knows how to make Free Trials as old free versions.

It means that your Recovery environment isn't on the Recovery partition.

Open a CMD window as administrator and type:

reagentc /enable

Post the results here

I asked if you have a drive image software like Macrium Reflect or Aomei Backuper so you can fix the layout.

And the results of reagentc /info?

Open a CMD window as administrator and type:

reagentc /info

Post the results here

And the results of reagentc /info?

You have an old Recovery partition at the beginning of the drive and one at the end.

I can see you're paying attention.


sfleury as Pentagon also noticed, the command is:
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
diskpart
list disk 0
list part
exit