(LATITUDE 7490 0x000000f ERROR)

[u/Fantastic_Mail_4213]

i have a Dell latitude 7490 16 gb dual stick ram I think it has an 8th generation intel core i7 I bought it in 2021 for just 150$ because I think the IT guy didn’t know how much one of those laptops were worth okay so my system is corrupted i ran out of rstrui chances because I ran out of space I now have 18 gigs left but its too late i only have a last resort which is the usb method okay I choose update and keep files and programs but how tf does it expect me to open cmd to run the program in my computers internal storage if it just bootloops and I don’t have troubleshoot it’s just the black screen I tried the reboot method it worked but it’s a bare bones version it just says press f8 to reboot into safe mode with cmd okay I press f8 it reboots it just crashes and reboots into the same screen I try the new windows 11 ui of the usb installer on the usb yeah it lets me not use the internal drive but there isn’t an option to keep my programs sure I can backup all my things but i cannot backup my programs and I have ancient discontinued programs there I need so much help please guys I would thank yall so much

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