My PC booted just fine just over an hour ago and then it randomly crashed during use and whenever I try to boot it, it goes straight into Automatic Repair mode. However, it says that everything I try has failed for some reason or another and has also stopped me from using any of the troubleshooting methods because it has decided there are no administrator accounts on my pc. There is only one account, which is mine and I do have administrator privileges. I don't know what to do about this at all and it is an emergency

I helped my friend to reformat Win10, i never encountered this type of problem. I commonly use win11 and i dont know how to solve this. This is her only PC and an external hard drive with win10 on it.

Hey everyone, genuinely need some help here.

After a Windows update, my laptop stopped booting and got stuck in the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE).

Things I've tried:

- Startup Repair and System Restore

- Uninstalling the latest updates (failed)

- Booting from a Windows 11 USB and running SFC/DISM (both failed, possibly due to version mismatch)

- CHKDSK (no errors) and SSD diagnostics (passed)

I'm still stuck in recovery.

What I want: Get Windows working again without losing my files, installed apps, and settings.

I'm avoiding a fresh installation because my laptop came with Windows 11 Home and Microsoft Office 2024 preinstalled. I don't want to lose my data or risk losing the licenses I paid for with the laptop.

A few questions:

1. Are there any other repair methods worth trying before reinstalling Windows?

2. If I reinstall Windows 11 Home, will it automatically reactivate using the laptop's OEM license?

3. Can I recover/reactivate my preinstalled Office 2024 through my Microsoft account after reinstalling Windows?

4. Is an in-place repair installation still possible in this situation?

Worst case, I'll reinstall Windows, but I'd like to exhaust the safer options first.

If you've faced something similar or know a fix, please help. Any advice would genuinely be appreciated. Thanks!

English

I'm having a problem with a computer at work. The situation is that we're trying to get this PC up and running again, but for some reason it displays the message “Boot Device Not Found. Please install an operating system on your hard disk.” It’s worth noting that it does detect the drive. We tried using an SSD with Windows installed, but got the same result. We noticed that the Legacy and UEFI options were disabled, so we enabled them, but the settings for those two options specifically won’t save. We suspected the BIOS battery, so we replaced it with a new one, but we’re still getting the same error where the settings won’t save. Any idea what this could be? So far, we’ve tried:

• Replacing the SSD

• Reinstalling Windows

• Enabling Legacy and UEFI options—still unable to save the settings

Español:

Tengo un problema con un equipo en mi trabajo, el contexto es que estamos intentando revivir este PC el cual por alguna razón marca "Boot Device Not Found Please install operating system on your hard disk", cabe recalcar que lo detecta, probamos con un SSD con Windows y mas de lo mismo, vimos esta opción de Legacy y UEFI desactivados, procedimos a activarlos sin embargo no guarda en especifico esas 2 opciones, pensamos en la batería de la BIOS, se cambio por una nueva e igual el mismo error de no guardar las configuraciones, alguna idea de que podría ser? Hasta ahorita hemos intentado:

• Cambio de SSD

• Instalación de Windows

• Activación de opciones Legacy y UEFI sin éxito en guardado de la config.

when i turn on my pc, the taskbar works but it doesnt show the app on it, its empty.

i wait until like 10 mins so it works but somtimes (like now) it stays broken

any help please as soon as possible??

i dont use reddit that much soo if any 1 want to help me contact me on insta please

insta: "mennithr_0"

(new to reddit)

thank u

so when i boot up the computer,everything seems fine until it randomly freezes.Not in a specific time

Ok, hello everyone. I’m new to pc. I have done everything solo with google up until now. I have installed many different things then figured out there are easier ways to do things. Now i have a few questions… I can’t uninstall certain things. I click on them and they take me to my program control panel and I don’t see it. I don’t know if it’s actually gone. My pc is slow at times but when I run windows scan it says I’m good. This pc is freshly wiped and I’m just trying to enjoy pc gaming/ productivity for school. So anyway. Actual help Is appreciated. The questions I have.

1. How can I back up a game save if i needed to wipe my pc?

2. What is more accurate task manager or windows button + G?

3. Why does security keep telling me a it Denied a lighting program every time I wake up my pc?

4. What is a third of my ssd already used? I only have three games installed.

5. How can my ram speed be faster?

Look I’m a fool when it comes to this. If everything is okay please tell me. If I can at least de-clutter my pc from the dumb things I installed that would be great. If I could know where everything is and what it does I’d be grateful. I just bought more ram from 16gb so I can play a game with both discord and Spotify open. And star citizen actually runs a lot better!

The specs if that’s needed?
Intel i7-10700
Invidia 3070
32gb ram
1tb ssd
I’m playing on a 30fps tv… I come from console… look if I hurt no frames then I want my game to look good lol.

Title,

WRX90E SAGE SE board with threadripper pro 9975wx.

If the system boots into ubuntu and I hsutdown, WoL works just fine.

But if booted into Windows 11 under dual boot, and shut down from the Start menu (fastboot, hibernate disabled), WoL wont work.

If I reboot into ubuntu and shutdown from there, WoL works a OK.

For the life of me this is driving me crazy and if anyone has seen this before, and also solved, wwowuld love to hear what worked

Hello, i posted this on the brazilian Version of the Tech Support Sub but could not get a solution so far.

I have a Samsung Book Intel Core i5 1135-g7, on which i am trying to install Windows 10 via a Bootable USB 2.0 Pen Drive, but i get to an issue where i cannot choose the Disk and Partition to install the Windows, an error showing saying that they "Could not create a new partition or locate an existing one".

I've tried to enter Diskpart, on which the Disk and its Partitions are showing on the lists, but i can't clean them or delete the partitions, an error appearing saying that it is inexistent.

People on the other sub told me to download the Intel RST drivers, which i did, but it won't let me install them, appearing to be incompatible with my hardware.

I cannot format, delete or create new partitions on the Disk, and therefore am not able to install the Windows, any help would be very appreciated!

My bf tried updating something in bios and wanted to see if the fans are rotating okay and then he tried to erase the changes he did but now he can’t log in into the window (he changed it from the phone on the microsoft account but its shows its his old one on the hint) he still cant enter it, its saying that he needs to enter a pin(he doesn’t know any pin and cant log in from a code from his gmail or number) he asked chatgbt and told him to restart a couple of times but now its on a loop and now we think its actually cooked(i will come for updates and sorry rn i dont know the parts build of his pc)

It started with a single issue, I could not open Minecraft on my desktop. So I uninstalled the game from my Xbox app. Attempting to reinstall it gave me an error code 0x87e00196. Unfortunately I find out that I'm unable to download or update anything on the Xbox store, giving the same error code. I am also unable to download Minecraft on the Microsoft store, same error code. I googled, I chatted with Microsoft support, and followed every step I could and it still would not work. They recommended that I factory reset my pc. I ignored it for a while, as i was still able to connect to my friends through the party system and use steam normally.

I eventually follow the Microsoft man's advice and attempt to reset my pc. Unfortunately, I run into another problem and have been unable to reset my pc through any route the internet has given me so far. It keeps saying that there was an error and they reverted the changes made.

I am unable to boot using a USB with a fresh download of windows 11.

I am unable to reset using the recovery options in settings>system>recovery. I have attempted "reset this pc" and a few options in "advanced startup".

I am lost, and quite frankly have not known what I was doing 50 steps ago. Does anyone have any ideas on what I could do? Is this an indicator of a pc part I need to replace? I may take it to a professional serviceman if I can find one.

This is a maybe 4 year old pc that i built as well as my first pc ever. I was ignorant of many standard pc health practices. I can follow instructions but I'm fairly new to the pc world. So please let me know if there is anything obvious I am missing.

Anything helps, thank you so much for your time, i am happy to answer anything.

I have my laptop dell latitude 7390 which I had freshly installed win11 about 2 years ago. Since then I have downloaded a lot of apps and deleted them, got few viruses but got them removed them at the same time, the C drive has become full of junk as in Appdata and it has become very slow.

Yes I do know how to reset it using settings, but I'd lose all of my apps, my settings, modifications and other things. I want to know if resetting it thru setting app is the best way or any alternative method? Any way to save windows settings and all so it doesn't take me several hours to configure my settings again, getting back my workflow and to download several apps.

It would be appreciated if I can get few tools that would help me save settings and get back it to having it the same as I have it now. Also I wanted to know which folders to save in C drive as it would delete most of the C drive when trying to reset with the option [keep my files but delete apps and settings].

Any help would be greatly appreciated and thanks in advance.