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November 24th, 2021 04:00
Bug in the procedure for factory reset
The procedure for factory reset ought to be bulletproof, but it isn't. I have the Media Creation Tool Win11_English_x64v1 on a USB stick. From a cold start, I should be able to press Reset followed by F12, and get to a screen for Please Select Boot Device. Instead, I get to the One Time Boot screen. I can still select the USB device from there, but at that point a reboot takes me to the blue Install screen. After that nothing good happens because I have no boot devices.
I think the problem might be either a corrupted boot partition, a corrupted partition table, or a corrupted EFI partition. This could be fixed if the first recovery action was to erase any partition information present, create a new partition table, and proceed a before. That would work even if memory had been zeroed out.
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November 24th, 2021 12:00
There's another possibility I forgot about.From the Install screen, you can get to a Browse screen that enables you to select a driver from the File Repository. The question is: which driver? There's a long list of them and their names aren't very revealing. The needed driver s probably in that list, but which one is it? There's a chance that if I pick the right driver, I'd be able to go the rest of the way.