Just a recap of the hell Windows 11 put me through last…
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Just a recap of the hell Windows 11 put me through last night
Buckle up guys. This is a good one.
Don't know what Microsoft pushed out or if it was just a screwed up windows update. (I'm just running vanilla Windows 11 home)
Just went to restart and got the srttrail.txt error and Windows is unable to be fixed (nightmare).
mind you, this is OUT OF NOWHERE. no issues, problems before. total complete OS failure/meltdown with very unfriendly recovery steps. Most people would have to take it to someone or totally start over.
Spent most of the evening old school 1980's in the command prompt restoring the corrupted EFI volume and rewriting the windows boot manager. (FUN!) 😂
luckily had another Windows 10 installation on another drive I was able to access and work with the windows 11 drive. It was so nice and nostalgic seeing the Windows 10 logon screen.😭
The win 11 SSD is showing fine in Crystal disk, no drive errors. I also had made the mistake of pulling out my graphics card to see if the SSD was secure in its slot. and after I fixed everything I reinstalled the graphics card and of course Bitlocker was like noooo you aren't doing dat.
So had to take it out. Reboot back into the fixed windows 11 on the integrated graphics. uninstall all the AMD drivers. Turn off Bitlocker.
( I turned it off completely, f that, for real thought I got locked out of the drive, make sure you can get to your Microsoft account for the code)!
Reinstall card, boot back in to 11. Uninstall card in device manager. Reboot into Win, (I't WORKING NOW and the Secure Boot is no longer locking me out) reinstall latest AMD drivers.
This whole process took me about 2-3 hours because I had no idea what I was doing. (I'm a pretty big geek but never had to mess around with the EFI partitions and use diskpart in the command line and then figure out the bitlocker crap). I stuck with it and avoided doing a total re installation which I was trying to avoid.
Just be on the lookout everyone, and suggest some backups are in order. Oh and to top it all off, I was using Chat GPT to help me. (a whole other story, but Skynet is here guys.)
Dammit Windows 11. I liked you up until now.
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Buckle up guys. This is a good one.
Don't know what Microsoft pushed out or if it was just a screwed up windows update. (I'm just running vanilla Windows 11 home)
Just went to restart and got the srttrail.txt error and Windows is unable to be fixed (nightmare).
mind you, this is OUT OF NOWHERE. no issues, problems before. total complete OS failure/meltdown with very unfriendly recovery steps. Most people would have to take it to someone or totally start over.
Spent most of the evening old school 1980's in the command prompt restoring the corrupted EFI volume and rewriting the windows boot manager. (FUN!) 😂
luckily had another Windows 10 installation on another drive I was able to access and work with the windows 11 drive. It was so nice and nostalgic seeing the Windows 10 logon screen.😭
The win 11 SSD is showing fine in Crystal disk, no drive errors. I also had made the mistake of pulling out my graphics card to see if the SSD was secure in its slot. and after I fixed everything I reinstalled the graphics card and of course Bitlocker was like noooo you aren't doing dat.
So had to take it out. Reboot back into the fixed windows 11 on the integrated graphics. uninstall all the AMD drivers. Turn off Bitlocker.
( I turned it off completely, f that, for real thought I got locked out of the drive, make sure you can get to your Microsoft account for the code)!
Reinstall card, boot back in to 11. Uninstall card in device manager. Reboot into Win, (I't WORKING NOW and the Secure Boot is no longer locking me out) reinstall latest AMD drivers.
This whole process took me about 2-3 hours because I had no idea what I was doing. (I'm a pretty big geek but never had to mess around with the EFI partitions and use diskpart in the command line and then figure out the bitlocker crap). I stuck with it and avoided doing a total re installation which I was trying to avoid.
Just be on the lookout everyone, and suggest some backups are in order. Oh and to top it all off, I was using Chat GPT to help me. (a whole other story, but Skynet is here guys.)
Dammit Windows 11. I liked you up until now.
#technology
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