Simple Bios Update Turned Into Disaster

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I'm going to start with the pc specs

• OS - Windows 10/ no os 64 bit
• Custom build - 3 yrs old
• Ram - 16 gb 3200 
• CPU model
• Video Card - rtx 3070 
• MotherBoard - Asus Tuff x570
• Power Supply - 850 evga
• Storage - WD 850x (gen 4) and Sabrient Rocket(gen 3) both 1tb

So my friend wanted to update his bios to get access to resizable bar so he hooked up an external drive with the latest bios firmware. After updating it wouldnt boot and he had 2 windows boot options, and one of them worked but windows audio drivers were missing/disabled (could not reinstall). He decided a clean windows install as he was about to upgrade cpu and he had transferred windows from an old oem dell prebuild. At first the drives refused to wipe/reformat. After some time we managed to wipe the drive and start the windows installation via the windows media creation tool. But not matter what we keep getting this error --> installation cancelled ,any changes made to your computer wont be saved. Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation. To install windows restart the installation. 

 

Any help is greatly appreciated thanks.

 

[Shimejii]

Unplug all drives except the one you want windows on. Other then that it shouldnt be a TPM as this is windows 10 not 11. 

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9 minutes ago, Shimejii said:

Unplug all drives except the one you want windows on. Other then that it shouldnt be a TPM as this is windows 10 not 11. 

Thank you for the suggestion, let me ask if he has already tried this hopefully something works 

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58 minutes ago, Shimejii said:

Unplug all drives except the one you want windows on. Other then that it shouldnt be a TPM as this is windows 10 not 11. 

Unplugged all the other drives and it worked! luckily it was a simple solution, mad at myself for not thinking of it myself. thank you.

[OddOod]

9 minutes ago, f1cringe said:

Unplugged all the other drives and it worked! luckily it was a simple solution, mad at myself for not thinking of it myself. thank you.

no worries bud! we've all been there