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02-17-2023 03:37 PM
hello, I recently bought this EliteDesk mini computer. It has an M2 disk. The first time I turned it on, it went directly into win11 install and installed correclty. Then, I wanted to add a second HDD with a win1o installation. It gave me a lot of trouble but finally using EasyBcd it managed to work, but it never booted back into win 11. After long hours I decided to download a pirated win11 partition that finally let me in but I want to recover the real authentic one that came pre-installed in this equipment. I know I must have messed up everytying when I decided to use EasyBCD, but after booting into the pirated (2nd HDD) I can see my M2 disk has the following partitions:
FAT 16 (100 MB)
Other (16MB)
NTFS (476.23GB)
NTF S (604MB)
It used to be disk 0 now it became disk 1. The second HDD that I brought it now became disk 0 and is running some torrent win11 on it that I don't like
The million dollar question: how can I have my elite desk boot into that beautiful recovery partition, reinstall windows11 (authentic) and be happy and move on with my life?
Also, I have tried to use boot recovery and nothing works. It actually shows me a win10 boot screen not win 11
Is that FAT 16 a problem Easy BCD created?
I want to recover my authentic windows partition and have dual boot systems.
Your help highly appreciated
02-18-2023 02:26 AM - edited 02-18-2023 02:27 AM
hi
Why try a pirated version!
you can use microsoft tool without problem normally
As for the installation in multi boot it would be necessary to check
but I had made the same error with windows 7 at the time, finally I did not want to reinstall everything
easy bcd had been very helpful
but I had read that you had to do the installation in a specific order at the time windows xp and after windows 7
maybe it's still the case
https://www.microsoft.com/fr-fr/software-download/windows11
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02-20-2023 10:20 AM
hi
you can try
HP Consumer PCs - Using the HP Cloud Recovery Tool (Windows 10, 7) | HP® Customer Support
but I don't know if we recover the recovery partition with this
so much of what it is about
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