installation

New member here, first post. Would like some help/advice with the above. The update downloads, and installs to the restart required. Restart first displays the "working on updates" blue-screen, but at 6% progress, commences to close and reboot. (Normally this reaches the 30% progress point??)...

Installed NVME to desktop motherboard, I only had a small screw that fit well in the motherboard hole. Unfortunately it was about 2mm too small, and the NVME is bent slightly downward, instead of being flat, like normal. I have installed many NVMEs into many laptops, desktops, I know how to do...

I am trying to install Windows on a HP Microserver Gen8. It contains 4 rust drives in the main bays, and an SSD in the optical slot. The nature of the HP BIOS is such that the SSD needs to be created as an "array of one" before it can be used, but I've done that, and set it as the primary boot...

Hi, I installed Win 11 on MBR because it was just the beginning of GPT and the opinions on how to convert it were very different and I stayed with the standard I knew (MBR) and now I wanted to update my OS but copy of Wind 11 is on GPT I have a Windows 11 image, but it is a Windows 11 image in...

I created an autounattend file. Reseal sends me to audit. When I run the file it stops and I get EULA for Asus. Has anyone else seen this. If so what is the fix

Hello, I am using Paragon Backup & Recovery Community / Free. When I create USB Recovery stick, it says cannot find ADK. I actually already have ADK and WinPE add-on already installed, so that a software from a different company can make WinPE USB. But, to be thorough, I installed it again...

I have an older Laptop that I use for travel. It was my wife's old laptop. It crashed and I had reload it with the OEM system after replacing the hard drive. Now it's running 8.1. I had previously upgraded it to Widows 10 when available. It I just bought a new Windows 10 download from Microsoft...

Hello, When doing an unattended install how do I stop the message from appearing that states a restart will occur in 10 seconds. Thanks

I have been trying to install Windows 10 on my new computer from a DVD I purchased with my old decommissioned computer. I have a DVD reader attached via USB. WIth the disk in the drive, when I turn on the system, it boots to the DVD and Windows commences to install. At the 2nd step of coping...

Hi guys, I have a 2023 Dell laptop (Inspiron 14 5430), and I'm trying to switch from Linux to Windows 11 again. But the ISO, that I downloaded on the Microsoft website, do not work properly, it can't find my disk. What can I do?

How do I install PortableApps platform in Aomei WinPE? Please only reply if you have personally already done it, I am not asking for theories or suggestions. Thank you. https://www.ubackup.com/pe-builder.html https://portableapps.com/

Hello I am using Ableton live on Win. I am new to using this app. Someone installed the VSTs, but I am not able to get ahold of them, so I am on my own now. I would like to move the VSTs to a different folder in File Explorer. But when I do that, they no longer show in Ableton Live. How do I do...

Here's the short version: when I attempt to power up (using the power switch on the power supply) the computer powers up for only an instance and then powers off. Here's the long version: on Friday I attempted to upgrade to Windows 11. I got an error message early in the installation, so I...

My issue is very strange and complicated and I was looking for a second opinion. For starters, hardware: ASUS TUF Z590 Motherboard Intel i9 10900K CPU Corsair Vengeance RAM 4x16GB overclocked at 3600MHz RTX 3090 FE 1000W EVGA PSU Firstly Ill say I have a custom water loop, in part to handle the...

Good evening, recently I have deleted the wow6432node folder in my registry [win11 professional] what caused a bootloop as I noticed later. Thanks to another windows-installation I still got access to the system; is there a way to repair the registry without re-installing windows? Thank you...

Windows 11 23H2 fresh installation. Firefox fresh installation. Multiple Addons result in Download error. Multiple common popular websites downloads result in download error. No networking issues, internet very fast, consistant, no VPN. All Windows optional and required updates. 3 AV scan no...

First, How do I find out if win 10 was upgraded to win 11 on a pc I bought, and I think pc did have win 10 because whenever I start pc, Edge comes up and displays tid bits of win 10 info, but I still wonder how to prove it did have win 10 prior to the upgrade? Second, How do I recover win 10 (if...

I have an ASUS laptop with a crippled hard drive. I was planning on cloning the hard drive to a new hard drive and then removing and replacing the hard drives. The problem is that I cannot install any new applications to the hard drive and so my plan to install the software on the existing hard...

How can one on Windows have evtest tool installed so can use it to remap the keyboard keys ? Please sincerely help out, any of which's so invaluable

I would like to install on disk 1. Disk 1 is emtpy, disk 0 has 3TB ExFat partition, disk 3 is the Windows installer. If I try to install Windows, it has error 0x80300024. BIOS boot order has Disk 1 on top. I have rebuilt the partition table of both disks. If I have disk 0 be empty, the it...