My laptop was not starting. I understood that the battery had run out of charging as soon as I plugged in the charger and started my laptop. Meanwhile, for a second I had removed the plug again and plugged in to another socket which corrupted my Windows 8.1 which was earlier upgraded from Windows 8.
Then it was showing me only a blue screen with Windows 8 error code oxc000000d
.
After going through many solutions, I understood that I'm not able to connect my recovery media which is inside one of the drives of my laptop, so I downloaded a Windows 8.1 Pro from the internet to a bootable USB and tried to repair using Recovery options. I got the following error:
The drive where Windows is installed is locked. Unlock the drive and try again.
I found a quick solution on it, which at least lead me to unlock my drive, and I installed a fresh copy using Reset your PC
from Advanced options
of UEFI firmware
. This installed Windows 8.1 Pro probably from the USB which I had downloaded from the internet.
Now the current installation is asking for an Activation Code.
- Is there any way to recover from my old recovery media which is in my
Windows RE or Recovery
drive of the same laptop?
I'm getting an error on reset or refresh Windows 8 without installation disc.
Update:Removing disk management to shorten the question. I assigned letter to my recovery partitions I'm able to see the files in it. Diskpart - Here is Recovery drive -