Help! Can’t boot into any usb Windows!
I’ve just transplanted my computer into a new rog strix b550 mobo due my old one seemingly dying on me. I formatted the SSD hoping for a clean install of windows 11. However, upon booting the system, I can’t get it to go into windows from the USB. I’ve tried creating the boot media via the windows tool. I’ve tried making usb media via rufus too. I’ve even tried making a windows 10 boot drive too. All of them seem to give me a black screen after coming out of choosing a boot in the bios. Sometimes I get the windows logo with a forever spinning wheel but that’s the maximum I can get happening. I also tried updating the bios, so now that’s at the latest version.Help on how to boot from old SSD on newest Motherboard
I have a PC with a motherboard ASROCK H510M-HDV/M2 retail and a disk SSD Patriot P300 512GB NVME M.2 PCIE GEN 3 X4. On hand I have an older SSD Apacer 240GB with Windows 10 Pro on it. I want (and need) to set the old Apacer as the boot drive but : In the BIOS 1. It is recognized as a SATA disk 2. It does not show up in the boot menu. Only the newer NvMe is shown in the boot manager. 3. When I remove the NVME disk, there is no boot disk available. There must be some BIOS tweak to make the "legacy" SSD as boot disk but I cannot find it. Any help appreciated.
Can I fit my old PC hard drive into my new PC just to activate Windows 11?
Years ago I purchased Windows 8.1 OEM for around £100 from ***elsewhere***, then when Windows 11 came along I was able to upgrade to it for free. Now I've just built a new PC but need to be able to activate windows, I've tried copying the product key etc but no joy. I've read that OEM versions can't be transferred? but also read that I could link my old PC to a Microsoft account and then it would work? I was wondering if I just take the hard drive out of the old PC with Windows 10 already on it and then stick it in the new PC - will it then activate on the new PC?
help with windir and system32 in quality enviroment
about a month ago i reinstalled windows 11 ( home) and so far not got older updates as i try to reset the windows updater i discover in one step ( after the rename of softwaredistribution and catroot steps) has windir and system 32 shown below cd /d %windir%\system32 than has abunch of regsvr32 dll to register anyway a error shows in red ( command prompt) saying cant be located or found in summary) so find how to fix it and no problems until after its fixed! when i apply this fix ( all profiles tab in box and add) the command prompt ( cmd) is gone cant open nor is windows key and x to bring up that list ( task manager commpand prompt, device manager etc...) and defrag is not able to run either to open the cmd ( command prompt ) i have to use windows key and r for box and than gives message im not administrator or words to that affect find fix for that but rather strange anyway ( not the other missing things) how do i go and fix this issue ? note i had to delete the fix above to get normal working functions again i cant find anything that mentions this or a fix i dont understand how a "fix " can affect or disable things this is link to show the step i mentioned i.e step 5 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-client/installing-updates-features-roles/additional-resources-for-windows-updateWindows 11 everything is too small
Just moved my PC from W10 to W11 (clean install) 34" ultra wide 3440 x 1440 everything is smaller. I booted back in to the W10 install to check and display scaling was set to 100% but everything looks ok (bigger) If I set display scaling to 125% in windows it doesn't work properly and quite a few programs and dialogue boxes are blurred and i can't work out what is more annoying at this moment in time, blurry progams or tiny text/icons some things can be changed manually, but others can't (bookmarks bar, title bar, taskbar icons, windows context menus, general text in windows) is there a solution I am missing ? I have windows 11 on my PC at home and didn't notice this issue, although possibly I have enabled display scaling on that (i'm not at home right now to check it), its using an Odyssey G9 49" super ultra wide @ 5120 x 1440 I also want to use a program called windock and it is completely broken with display scaling turned on
Non system disk or disk error
My PC has been working just fine for about 4 years but yesterday I went to switch it on and I get 'Non system disk or disk error replace and strike any key' Searching online says this is an issue with my operating system, but any ideas on what to do to fix this would be appreciated.PC doesnt turn on pls help
one day i put my custom built pc (£500) on sleep for several hours and when i came back the pc would seem to turn on normally but the monitor, mouse and keyboard. After a while the pc would turn off as if it gave up. 2 months later i now have replaced the psu and case and its doing the exact same thing. Does anyone know whats going on here? some help would be much appreciated
Fully Automated Windows Factory Reset for Corporate Laptops
Hello, I am working on a corporate project where we need to allow employees to purchase company laptops. After purchase, the laptop must be fully reset to a “factory state,” removing all corporate data and files. I have tried several approaches: systemreset -factoryreset — but it always shows the GUI and prompts the user to choose whether to keep files or remove everything. Using a ResetConfig.xml — but without an OEM recovery image, it does not work. Applying install.wim via DISM — but after reboot, the system remains unchanged. My goal is to fully automate the factory reset without any user interaction, ideally in a corporate environment. I am considering using MDT, SCCM, or Intune. My questions: What is the best approach to fully automate Windows reset for corporate laptops? Are there best practices or official guides from Microsoft for this scenario? Has anyone successfully implemented fully automated factory reset in a corporate deployment?
