Solved Need help Lenovo won't boot up

hsehestedt · Nov 7, 2022

flashh4, when we left off, you were stepping through the batch file. We were almost to the last questions that the batch file was going to ask you. After that, it would create the flash drive for you. Did run that batch file to completion?

hsehestedt · Nov 7, 2022

flashh4 said:
hsehestedt, when i mount the Windows image it shows it's on a DVD should it be there ?

As bobkn pointed, an ISO image shows up like a DVD when it is mounted. Let me explain...

An ISO image is in fact a disc image for optical media such as CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays. For that reason, when you mount such an image, it appears like a CD, DVD, or Blu-Ray.

Does that make sense?

Bottom line is that this is normal.

flashh4 · Nov 7, 2022

Hey, there is a blue circle going around on the H (flash drive) i hope that means it's loading the files ??

hsehestedt · Nov 7, 2022

When you say that there is a blue circle, where do you see this? In File Explorer?

Also, unless something has changed, H: was NOT the flash drive before. H: was the drive letter assigned to the ISO image that we mounted.

hsehestedt · Nov 7, 2022

Question: How much longer do you plan to work on this tonight? Where I am (Central Standard Time in the United States), it is about 10:05 PM. I need to step away for a while to wrap some stuff up before retiring for the evening. If you plan to continue tonight, I'll try to monitor the forum on and off before I actually retire, otherwise, I'll sign off for the evening.

flashh4 · Nov 7, 2022

Ok it's mountain time where i am so will wait till morning ! Thanks

hsehestedt · Nov 7, 2022

Sounds good. Chat with you tomorrow. Hope you have a good evening.

SIW2 · Nov 7, 2022

Code:

@Echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f "tokens=1-6" %%a in (
 'wmic logicaldisk list brief'
) do if %%b Equ 2 if %%d gtr 0 Set USB=!USB! %%a
Echo:Usbdrives:%USB%
EndLocal
pause

hsehestedt · Nov 8, 2022

SIW2, thanks for that, but I was very purposefully avoiding that

. There's a couple of corner cases where that can cause issues. As an example, I have a flash disk inserted into a USB port on my computer. I open diskpart, perform a "clean" on the flash disk, then exit diskpart. I then see this:

Note that both File explorer and the wmic command both still show a drive Q: even though that drive has been wiped. There are ways around that that I'm not going into now, but I wanted to avoid a situation where I need to deal with side effects of that.

But thank you for pointing this out.

SlicEnDicE · Nov 8, 2022

flashh4 said:
SlicEnDice, the key board & mouse does not work unless i am in the Bios Utility Menu's !

Are mouse and KB plugged into ports 3 and 4, which reside beside the LAN port? Very important. The 4 other ports are connected to the chipset, while 3 and 4 should be going straight to CPU.

Point 5 are ports 3 and 4

flashh4 · Nov 8, 2022

First thing i need to format these drives, it won't let me by clicking format, i get the message "windows was unable to format", just wanted to format them, no reason other than that ! But i figured it out !!

SIW2 · Nov 8, 2022

First thing i need to format these drives

why ?

bobkn · Nov 8, 2022

flashh4 said:
First thing i need to format these drives, it won't let me by clicking format, i get the message "windows was unable to format"

(snip)

You appear to be trying to format the System drive from within Windows.

You can't do that, for obvious reasons.

If you want to do a clean install of Windows, you need to boot from a USB drive. From that, you can wipe anything you'd like to.

I'm not sure what kind of special boot USB drive "hsehestedt" is trying to help you prepare.

zbook · Nov 8, 2022

With the above disk management what are the current problems?

What happens when the computer is powered on now and you attempt to boot Windows?
a) any error messages or codes?
b) are you able to use the keyboard without problems?
c) are you able to use the mouse without problems?

When you boot using the Windows Media Creation Tool (MCT)
a) any error messages or codes?
b) are you able to use the keyboard without problems?
c) are you able to use the mouse without problems?

flashh4 · Nov 8, 2022

Morning everyone, ok here is where i am at ! I have tried to follow hsehestedt directions but i think i am lost ! After running this is as far as i have gotten, not sure where to go next ?

hsehestedt · Nov 8, 2022

Did you finish running the batch file?

EDIT: ~~From your screenshot, it looks like you did. Just for confirmation, could you unplug the flash drive and take another screenshot in File explorer. I expect drives J: and F: will disappear.~~

I looked at that wrong. Only one partition got created on the flash drive. Could you please run that batch file again please? When it asks for the source, once again enter H:\. When it asks for drive letters, enter R the first time, and S for the second one. Then provide a screenshot again after it is done.

flashh4 · Nov 8, 2022

Here ya go !

hsehestedt · Nov 8, 2022

Only one partition got created on the flash drive. Could you please run that batch file again please? When it asks for the source, once again enter H:\

When it asks for drive letters, enter R the first time, and S for the second one. Then provide a screenshot again after it is done.