Questions tagged [windows-installation]
The process of installing the Windows operating system software onto a physical or virtual machine.
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Changing Windows' default system directory on installation
Long story short: I'm writing a shim for running custom privileged scripts with Windows' native shell. To test that, I'd like to have a set of custom-forged installations, one of which would involve ...
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How do I get the Windows 10 installer to boot from the right partition?
I'm trying to set up a USB drive to boot multiple OSes using vanilla GRUB. I'd like for it to be able to boot the installer for both Windows 10 and Windows 11. The way I'm trying to do this is by ...
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Windows 10 laptop > Reset this PC > now stuck in boot loop
TLDR: This laptop is a Dell Latitude 5420 with an NVMe SSD drive -- and apparently Windows has lost the driver for that drive? It can't boot, and I can't (re)install Windows on it without that driver....
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Do Windows 11 Recovery Drives contain the currently installed drivers?
I tried to reinstall Windows 11 using the installation media by following the steps on the Create installation media for Windows page. When I booted the USB, I found that it did not contain drivers ...
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Can't boot from USB UEFI
So, I just got this mobo (biostar h61mvg3) and trying to install Windows 10 on it. It was fine installing with legacy boot I got no problem.
I decided to change my drive partition to GPT, and I need ...
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PowerShell script do not run from autounattend.xml file
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I've created an autounattend.xml file with settings to skip OOBE, create user profile and running PowerShell script during first logon. First two worked fine except running the script. I've ...
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Bypassing TPM/SecureBoot checks when installing Win11 without Rufus
I need to install Windows 11 on an older PC that doesn't support TPM and SecureBoot.
According to this article, it's possible by creating DWORDs with the names BypassTPMCheck and BypassSecureBoot (...
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Windows 11 installation does not find NVMe drive
I have a desktop computer with an AMD Ryzen 4650 PRO CPU on an ASUS Prime B550-A mainboard with an Samsung Evo 980 NVMe SSD. The system works flawlessly with Linux, but now I need to install Windows ...
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Can I deactivate the Windows 11 Pro account requirement after installation?
During setup you can skip this requirement. Can I disable this afterwards? I'm using Windows Pro.
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Windows XP installation failure, blue screen white text, stop error screen
512GB hard drive is functional and formatted NTFS.
8GB of RAM tested ok too.
Used genuine Microsoft installation CD.
BIOS version: F.12
BIOS vendor: Insyde
2012 HP Pavilion dv6
CPU: Intel Core i7-...
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Disabling Windows Update and Defender as Installation Options
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In rufus the following options are able to be used to streamline the installation. I am wondering if it is possible to disable Update and Defender within the installation ...
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How do I know which edition install disc I need to repair a non-booting Windows 7?
When a Windows 7 install doesn't start I need an installation disc in order to repair it. If I use a disc of an edition of Windows 7 that doesn't match the installed edition it will refuse to do a ...
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Proper RunSynchronousCommand exit code to fail autounattend installation?
I'm using an autounattend.xml file to perform an unattended installation of Windows Server 2022.
In the specialize phase, I have a few Powershell scripts I want to run (defined in ...
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How can I install Windows on two separate disks separately?
I want to have two separate Windows installations on two separate disks on my PC (with Secure Boot enabled). The first installation succeeds and works fine, but when I try to install another Windows ...
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How can I install Windows 11 offline? [duplicate]
While on previous Windows versions I just could unplug the network cable during installation to do an offline installation with a local account, Windows 11 does not let me proceed without an internet ...
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How to write windows installation iso to usb hard drive
There seem to be many tools to write an ISO to a USB stick, but I am trying to write a windows installation ISO to an external hard drive, many tools don't even list it as an option to write to, what ...
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Swapping the install.wim in Windows 11 installation media would not let me get past first boot
Whenever I swap the install.wim of any Windows 11 installation media I got with a WIM file I captured of my Windows install, it would not get past the first boot, right after copying the files:
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Can't boot from a USB stick to install Windows 7 Pro on Asus K55N
I have been at this since the 19th when all I wanted to do was downgrade from Win 7 Ultimate to Win 7 Pro.
I hired someone who said his software could do it and it couldn't.
Then he wanted to reformat ...
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New windows 10 installation stuck on "trying to connect to microsoft" & then"Looks like something happened."?
ASUS VivoBook 15 i3
I have no internet on the laptop in question - it is an offline machine.
I do not want to link this laptop to a Microsoft account and all telemitry will be disabled once I get ...
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How to have one partition, instead of 3 (or more) when installing Windows 11
I downloaded Windows 11 version 22H2 from Microsoft here. When I run Setup & get to the part of selecting the partition (NOT MY screen capture):
I can't simply select a single large enough, just-...
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Standard re-installation of Windows 11 - not selectable "keep personal files and apps" - What's the Reg Edit fix?
What's the Reg Edit navigation to change these options?
Bit embarrassed I need to ask, I'm a computer enthusiast and just have a 15 year habit of installing clean windows on separate partition and re-...
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Faulty Windows 11 ISO
I downloaded a Windows multi-edition ISO from here.
I then flashed it to a USB drive using Rufus 20.0. Later, I booted it to Setup, with just having converted my SSD to GPT & formatting a ...
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Installing Windows 11 on Gigabyte Aorus Elite B550M
For the 1st time in decades; I'm struggling to install Windows on my Computer.
I've recently moved to a new Motherboard (Gigabyte Aorus Elite B550M).
I need to perform a Windows 11 Clean Install from ...
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ProductKey setting in autounattend.xml at Windows Setup not being read
I've been trying to use DataImage component of Windows Setup to unpack an extra WIM (aside from insall.wim) to another partition (D:) during windows installation. I needed an answer file, so I went to ...
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Why is the user account type selection missing in my windows 11 setup
I am trying to set up a new (used) PC with Win 11. I used the official media creation tool, created a usb-stick and started the setup.
At the point where (according to several online step-by-step ...
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Windows 10 version 1703 fails to install but recent versions install correctly on a laptop. Using rufus and a bootable usb
So, I have a lenovo y530 laptop. I use rufus to download windows 10 iso and do a clean install with bootable usb. I can successfully install recent windows versions like from 1909.
If I try to install ...
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Hacking a Windows 11 Installation Setup
During Windows 11 installation:
Obviously install.wim's only image inside is extracted in this "Copying Windows files" stage. Now, this install.wim, I wish to replace with my own WIM file ...
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Applying different images in install.wim during the installation setup
I have images captured of my C: & D: & I want these two images applied to C: & D: during installations henceforth. So I was thinking, I would replace the install.wim in the \sources of a ...
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Setting up Hyper V with Windows 10 Pro in most efficient way
For a testing environment I want to setup a host computer with Windows 10 Pro and 3 additional Win 10 instance in Hyper V, I do not need to do anything on (main) host computer I want to install ...
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Reinstalling Windows 11 in my laptop
My laptop has many problems due to the Windows Insider. My laptop is HP Spectre x360-15, and it comes with Windows preinstalled, as well as a variety of programs. I am thinking about reinstalling ...
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Can I delete the earlier Windows 11 ISO file from Media Creation Tool and directly replace it with the ISO file for 22H2?
I found a site that directly downloaded the ISO for 22H2 to my C Drive. I currently have the earlier version of Windows 11 installed. As I may not run it like an exe file in order to install it, can ...
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What will happen if I install windows using custom install?
I can't boot my PC using my windows installed in my C drive since I think the files are corrupt, so I have windows installed on a flash drive and am installing it to see if I can save some of the ...
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My windows 8.1 can't upgrade to windows 10, the system requirements seem to screw me up hard
The title almost states my problem. Take a glimpse of my system as below,
Windows 10 requires it to have a different CPU core type. I think my computer is dying.
I've tried to run the Media Creation ...
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USB detected as a legacy boot device only
Windows 11 Pro installation USB flash drive is detected as a legacy boot device only
When I open setup.exe, it shows this error:
Use the other installation disc that says 64-bit. When you insert it, ...
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getting an error "Unsupported Processor" when installing windows 10
I've recently bought a new PC. I have a Ryzen 5 3600 and was planning to get a B550 motherboard but the store only has B450M-Pro II available so I didn't really have a choice.
After I assembled the PC,...
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Windows 7 setup could not see HDD
I'm trying to install Windows 7 on a Lenovo Desktop Core i5 PC, which originally came with Windows 7 installed, I bought it used and hard disk was cleaned.
When I run the Windows 7 setup it could not ...
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Which version of Windows 10 is on my USB flash drive installer?
I have a Windows 10 InstallUSB and I'd like to know which version of Windows 10 it is. Searching online, I found this technique in many places, with the file [install.<esd||swm||wim>, boot.wim] ...
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Installing Windows 11, new laptop, can't see hard drive in installtion
I always install new windows into any PC I buy or build - way back from XP, 7, 8, 10, and now 11. I bought a new Dell laptop and did the same one day after buying. I normally split the hard drive into ...
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Install Windows to a Nvme ssd disk that is not recognized by BIOS
I have a Nvme ssd disk that my computer's BIOS does not recognize and a simple bootable ssd.
I want to install Windows 10 on nvme but the bootloader to the other bootable ssd. Windows recognized the ...
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Trying to install WIndows on the same disk as Windows installation media
I know I can just use a pen drive but that will take a bit of time and I am impatient, so is there any way I can install Windows on my HDD without a pen drive?
The machine is an ASUS laptop and it has ...
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Creating a clean WIM/ESD file out of my current Windows Server 2012 installation
Here's my scenario:
We have an old Dell PowerEdge Server with an OEM Windows Server 2012 Foundation license. The machine is working perfectly and there's currently an OS deployment running on it, ...
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USB Windows 11 for TPM/SB created on non-TPM/SB system
What option is needed to install Windows 11 to a live persistent USB on a non-TPM/Secure Boot system, if the USB will be used on a TPM/Secure Boot system. I assume it is the Standard with TPM & ...
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Windows 10 won't install with dual boot on NVMe SSD
I recently bouth a new PC with a Samsung 980 SSD NVMe. I installed there Ubuntu 20.04 without any problem, but when I try to install Windows 10, it won't let me.
When I boot from the USB and the ...
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Cannot install Windows 10 on a very old laptop: CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED
I have a very old laptop (based on Intel Core 2 Duo T5450) which came with Windows Vista which works on it just fine. It has 3 GB of RAM, plenty of free space and otherwise 100% functional.
I'm unable ...
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Windows 11 installation error 0x80070570
I recently bought an HP Pavilion bb0501 with windows 11 preinstalled, so I decided to do a clean install of windows 11 to remove the bloatware that new laptops always contain. I downloaded the iso and ...
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How to deploy Windows Image to different Computers(different hardware)
I install and reinstall windows all day. I clone to expediate the process, if the hardware allows it, but would really save a lot of time if I could just restore a windows image with all the apps ...
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My PC gets a blue screen when booting Windows installation Wizard through a bootable USB
I finished building my first ever PC build about 5 days ago now and since then, I've not been able to boot a Windows bootable USB to install Windows 10 without getting a blue screen in a matter of ...
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How to direct Windows Setup where to install the bootloader files?
I want to setup multiple Windows installations on separate hard drives/SSDs. I have an internal SATA dock on my system as well as an internal on-board NVMe SSD, so I can insert and remove SATA drives ...
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Clean install Windows 10 - is it dangerous downloading a fresh install to a flash drive on an infected PC?
I read this thread:
How can I remove malicious spyware, malware, adware, viruses, trojans or rootkits from my PC?
Excellent write ups and thank you to everyone who posted something I learned! I was ...
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Options for Internal SSD Upgrade [duplicate]
I currently have a 256GB internal SSD in my laptop, but it isn't enough. I have just ordered a 500GB one, and that will be enough (at least for now).
I have looked up a few things on how to "...
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