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So first the UEFI firmware interface appeared for no reason, then the Recovery Environment loaded on the next boot, without 2 consecutive failed startups as that would have displayed a "Your PC failed to start" screen with a button before having the Reset, Refresh, Troubleshoot, and Turn Off...

It's not necessary because of an external firing force. BitLocker is a bomb dropped by Microsoft onto Windows customers, and has countless absurd excuses for demanding an unknown recovery key at any moment. This includes changing the BIOS or UEFI firmware boot priority, inserting or removing an...

Fast Boot is a firmware feature that is independent of the operating system. If the operating system can be booted with Fast Boot, it can without Fast Boot. Windows has the Fast Startup feature, where the kernel is hibernated to disk and resumed on next startup while everything else starts new...

If most of the Advanced Options in the Recovery Environment are missing, this is caused by faulty Boot Configuration Data. If the blue screen lead you to use those commands, it is probably SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED caused by CPU core and memory limits in the Boot Configuration Data...

MSConfig 1) Windows key + R and type msconfig then press Enter. 2) Press the up arrow key twice to choose Normal Startup. 3) Shift + Tab once to reach the tab menu. 3) Press the right arrow once to move from General to Boot. 4) Tab three times and press Space to uncheck Safe Boot. 4) Press Enter...

Both Rufus and manual method (extraction + bootsect) are the same in that only file contents inside the ISO are used. Rufus writes the bootsectors automatically, but doesn't source them from the ISO, so both methods only use the file contents of the ISO. This was in response to the earlier...

Safe Mode could be accessed by Shift + Clicking the Restart button > Troubleshoot > Advanced Options > Startup Settings > Restart > press 5. Since Safe Mode was permanently enabled in MSConfig, and you can't login to Safe Mode to undo the change, you can replace the Boot Configuration Data file...

@(set '(=)||' <# lean and mean cmd / powershell hybrid #> @' ::# Get 11 on 'unsupported' PC via Windows Update or mounted ISO (no patching needed) ::# if wu download stuck at 0% use OfflineInsiderEnroll by whatever127 and abbodi1406 ::# V9+ rebased on cmd due to defender transgression; skip...

That's the fault of the HDD or SSD in the laptop. Windows 11 installation, like all reading and writing of disks, is not any more particularly capable of damaging an HDD or SSD. The only way it could is if it constantly spun down and spun up an HDD, or intentionally wrote to the same sectors of...

To bypass the Despicable Requirements by changing installer mode to Server while actually installing Windows 11 updates, open Command Prompt as administrator and paste the entire contents of this file, then run Windows Update again...

Rufus and manual extraction only transfer the file contents inside the ISO. The MBR is either already there and ready, or needs to be created separately. The MBR could already be there, it could be the Volume Boot Record that isn't. Are you able to just erase the USB pen drive? If so, the...

Are you wanting to remove the Windows 7 installer from the USB pen drive, or make it have a bootable Windows 7 installer? The ISO file cannot be bootable simply by pasting the container onto the USB pen drive. The contents have to be extracted from inside the ISO. For legacy BIOS booting, you...

It's not possible in the same way as icons can be changed for File Explorer or Start Menu icons.

Windows + P is for multiple displays, which the same virtual desktop can have. Windows + Tab is for virtual desktops, which there can be several with only one display. It can be either.

It sounds like you are using a legacy BIOS system. "This is not a bootable device" and "An operating system wasn't found" are bootsector messages before BootMGR loads, and only legacy BIOS uses bootsectors. The BIOS firmware reads the first 434 bytes of the disk, which is the Master Boot Record...