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Hi New Fresh install and Activation. All seems good so far. With a new ASUS (et al) as soon as you power on the Windows installer starts, and annoyingly wants to add BitLocker, so I go LocalOnly. Then hopefully adjust things and install Linux. It fails sometimes. As to having Linux GrUB...

Hi OK. It is a less than 2 years old ASUS, it has never had W10 on it. It came with an ASUS OEM version. Just a single, one and only machine. I applied SLtop:~/Downloads$ ls *.iso linuxmint-22.3-cinnamon-64bit.iso Win11_25H2_EnglishInternational_x64_v2.iso zorin18.iso the W1125H2...

Hi I may well be misunderstanding this, but I thought SAMBA/CIFS was a way to share. Vague memories of a Raspberry and W10 being joined at the hip, so to speak.

Thank you for the help. That key is not valid either. I know the OEM licence key and have tried manually quite a few times. So over the weekend I think another wipe and re-install. Using the linux CLI $ sudo cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM | tail -1 [sudo] password for ann...

Hi ASUS laptop less than 2 years old. Had hardware changes and lots of assorted OS installs. Currently mostly/mainly Linux Mint, but I tried Debian,Zorin and Tiny11. So I always install as LocalOnly and no problems, until this last install (NB:I recently put W11 on a 2014 Acer and it has a...

Hi I short circuited the problem by doing the cloud recovery option from ASUS. It worked. Wiped out my Debian 13 Install, but HeyHo. I set a local account, shrunk the 1.8 TB C: drive to a more modest 330 GB ISH. Did a little housekeeping, and rebooted to install Linux Mint in Safe Mode, 80...

Thanks for the replies. After faffing about, I am currently watching it doing a Cloud Recovery. So I guess it will be a Factory Fresh ASUS 17 X1704VA, with 24 Gig of RAM and W11 Home on a 2 TB NVMe and an Intel Inside i5-1335u CPU.

Hi GRuB is the usual way, BCD is difficult and I can't explain HOW2. rEFInd is absolutely superb as a Boot Loader. NB: Paragon Partition Manager CE can mount your efi boot partition as A: for editing, best not to meddle with it unless practiced in the art or desperate. In the BIOS set your...

Hi Installed is Micron 500 GB nvme,I removed it and fitted a 2TB Crucial P310 NVMe. Using Ventoy I can start and run Debian 13 Live, also Debian 13, which I have installed. Trying the W11 International x64 ISO I downloaded will not find/recognise the Crucial drive, nor Tiny11 either...

Hi Update... 3 Laptops with W11 Tiny installed... ASUS 17 Vivobook, Lenovo 17 inch Ideapad and a 2015/16 HP 17 laptop. All good installs, the HP has some keyboard problems and W11 does not seem to update, so it's retired. Lenovo and Asus are excellent installs.

Hi Yesterday I wiped an old(ish) HP laptop, circa 9/10 years old, that the innards work very well but the case near the hinges have superglue, with Tiny11. I deleted the Solitaire option from the script and so Solitaire works very nicely. Used Rufus to create a USB with/for a Local Account...

Thanks to all the respondents. I hope to be able to glean something from Tiny11 script, perhaps even installing it on another machine. This install is stable, and bloated etc but I will persevere. Thanks again. I am still intrigued by the script to install Office 2016, but not at the...

Hi W11 build 24H2 (26100.3624) I seem to have a stable install now, after a nightmare 12 hours with it. I have tried, and failed, to remove Bing and Edge, what a double act they are. Noticed a script to install Office 2016, which seems peculiar. This script sets up the client machine with OEM...

Thanks. I am hopefully learning, and having to switch OS's and Laptops is hard, but safety first. I may well try and wipe W11 and try W10 again. I am grateful for the help and will try and give credit accordingly.

Hi 2 things, Linux Mint wanted a password (that is the BL key) to access and mount, and I just de-crypted the drive. So now it mounts. Also yesterday in a list of tasks BitLocker was there running in the background. Automatic Device Encryption is triggered, according to the internet, in at...