cheers enthousiast, ive done that a few times but its nice to get a refresher. i wish you were same time zone as me cos ive had all day set aside for doing this but its evening now and too late for me to start it.
right first problem i created the bootable usb using the mct and ran it from setup (didnt boot from it) it asked me if i wanted to check for updates and a box to tick to help make windows better or something then after a few checks for space etc it summed up i wanted to install windows home. not at any time was i given the option to install win 10 pro. should i go ahead or do i need to install pro? i didnt boot from the usb but clicked set up on the usb instead is that my mistake?
You're not installing from boot, you're running setup from the running windows, installing from boot doesn't offer any boxes to tick, except the eula.
so should i proceed now? install windows 10 home ticked keep nothing ticked no mention of pro. does that matter?
ive clicked install now. i havent set bios to boot from usb. havent even checked to see what it was set to. i am now installing windows 10 and so far hasnt given me the option of deleting partitions this isnt going the way i expected and like your examples
i really appreciate your help but i wish you would not tell me what im doing but what i should do. it is easy for me to be mistaken. i would prefer as in STOP boot from usb. dont run from set up. or go to bios set up usb as first drive etc i told you i was an idiot. i am half way through installing and have clicked cancel. im gonna restart and if usb doesnt boot i am gonna check bios and select usb as first boot device thats after ive probably spent half an hour googling to find out how to enter bios on this thing.... plus it takes 3 mins to restart. insanely slow.
F10 was the enter boot key im all installed now but sadly its still chronically slow i'd change the hd to ssd but ive got an almost identical laptop with only half the ram 4gb and a lesser cpu but it flies in comparison ie re-starts in half a minute whereas this takes 3 minutes still. you have to take the cover off to change ram and cpu but im ok with doing that as i replaced the dc port the other week - cover off and back on. i might try swapping stuff onto the fast laptop to see whats slowing it down. hp do some hardware trouble shooting software that diagnoses problems so will try that first. but thanks for your help chaps especially enthousiast youve done all you can
if you want to boot into advanced settings of win10 then you can use a command : shutdown /r /o /f /t 00 r switch is to reboot o switch is to boot into advanced settings f switch is to forcefuly stop any running applications which will interuupt with shutdown t swicth is to add time in seconds for shutdown to be processed
"Boots" to a fake recovery, not the real recovery partition, it won't show dart, etcetc... when integrated. This boots directly to the real recovery partition: Code: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19042.685] (c) 2020 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\WINDOWS\system32>reagentc /boottore REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful. C:\WINDOWS\system32>
its speeding up its been downloading and installing updates. even hung on a restart for 15 mins but seems to be improving ive activated using massgravels mas 1.4 hwid thanks for link enthousiast
as an update i found out the issue with the laptop was the hard drive. it had a slow 5400 western digital fitted. a pal popped in a spare 500gb ssd and fresh install of windows (again!!) and now it takes 11 seconds from pressing power up to the pin number screen my other much less spec was taking 17 seconds and this thing was taking minutes. all sorted thanks for your help.
Hello Enthousiast, I have red on some forums where they recommends to remove that ei.cfg file from ISO. Is that right way?
there's no need for the ei.cfg if you want to choose between all included indexes in a multi-edition consumer media (home,pro,edu) it's only added for business media (enterprise,pro vl, edu vl) so that VL keys are expected in setup instead of retail
If the MSDM is for home, it won't let you select pro or any other and autoselect home at initial setup. On non OEM systems only need for ei.cfg can be that else setupcomplete.cmd is blocked to run.