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Cannot for the life of me get my Alienware m17 r5 AMD to reinstall windows off of a boot usb
Alienware m17 R5 AMD
I wanted to reinstall windows 11 because my computer started having very high ram utilization with no apps open (90 - 100%). And the bulit in reinstallation tools in windows were not working.
Im going to list the steps I have taken so far.
In the bios secure boot is disabled and usb emulation is enabled.
Bios will only register that the usb is plugged in if I plug it in right after it starts.
I stupidly decided to clear the ssd with the bios setting clear drive on next boot.
I got one boot usb to start and it got to about 10% on the windows 11 install before randomly shutting down and removing all of the progress. It did this multiple times before I switched to a different boot usb.
Whenever I can boot to this usb, it will only say that I need to install a driver to make my hardware discoverable, but ive checked the alienware website and tried updating my bios and it still didnt work, I dont think this driver exists.
Currently I am installing ubuntu on my first usb drive to see if that will be able to install, but I would much rather use windows. Please help!