#Installing Windows 11

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dim hawk
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I can also provide video and photos of the problem

nocturne herald
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What percentage countdown?

dim hawk
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Not rly a countdown

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More of the percentage of how far it's installed

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yknow?

nocturne herald
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But where? In the installer?

dim hawk
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In the setup

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To install it

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This

nocturne herald
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Have you tried the classic installer?

dim hawk
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What's that?

nocturne herald
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I believe there should be an option for the classic installer somewhere in the setup

dim hawk
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And I use Ventoy btw

dim hawk
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Yeah i have

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it's the same thing

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Ventoy, classic, Grub

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If you'd like me to try it, I can

nocturne herald
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Okay I don't know what is causing this but I know what would my workaround be

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Installing Windows by deploying the image manually with DISM

dim hawk
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I have no idea how to do that tbh

nocturne herald
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Internet says:

dism /Get-ImageInfo /ImageFile:X:\sources\install.wim

in the command prompt of the installer

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to query the image

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then

dism /Apply-Image /ImageFile:X:\sources\install.wim /Index:6 /ApplyDir:C:

to apply the windows image

dim hawk
nocturne herald
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and

bcdboot C:\Windows /s A: /f ALL

to the boot partition

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but you would need to inspect that manually

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what's A: etc

nocturne herald
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Shift + F10 I think

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To bring it up

dim hawk
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Okay

nocturne herald
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Are you installing Windows alongside Linux?

dim hawk
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Yeah

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I have my whole explanation in the main part of the post

nocturne herald
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I hope you partitioned on Linux

mystic rose
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Id recommend you to install windows first

nocturne herald
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Made some space for Windows

mystic rose
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And then arch

nocturne herald
dim hawk
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Thing is, I have a bunch of stuff installed on Arch already. I accidentally wiped out Windows 11 (nothing too important, I had prepared for it), but I'm not trying to wipe out Arch Linux since I had already prioritized it and customized it, and then decided to split my space, and now I have different partitions and whatnot prepared already.

nocturne herald
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Okay

dim hawk
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I barely know what I'm doing as it, bc it took me 9 days to figure out how to correctly install Arch

mystic rose
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Is arch in uefi?

dim hawk
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wait no

nocturne herald
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Your partitions etc

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Windows is Windows so you never know

dim hawk
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hold on

mystic rose
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I also had dual booting issues and it turned out to be that arch was installed in legacy bios

dim hawk
dim hawk
nocturne herald
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Yes, Legacy, as in BIOS mode

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Not UEFI

dim hawk
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The "Microsoft reserved partition" is the failed install

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Arch is fully installed for me so yeah

nocturne herald
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Since you're installing Windows manually you can delete that Microsoft reserved partition and make another EFI partition for Windows

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I don't know about DISM, but regular Windows installations tend to completely wipe your shared EFI partition making Linux unbootable

dim hawk
nocturne herald
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So you would probably need to recreate it either way - but you should be able to avoid that hassle with DISM

dim hawk
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It's worked for other ppl I know

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I just seem to be a hard case to crack

nocturne herald
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You're talking about the installer now?

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The one that's failing

dim hawk
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I'm not even sure what's wrong

nocturne herald
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Well me neither

dim hawk
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this just seems to happen every time I try to install at all

nocturne herald
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Well yeah that's why I'm giving you workarounds

dim hawk
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right right

nocturne herald
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Not in the Linux terminal

nocturne herald
dim hawk
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Ohhhhhhh

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I see I see

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Hold on

dim hawk
nocturne herald
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Okay the install.wim file is in a different place then

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I don't know where

dim hawk
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It’s literally telling me lol

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second to last line

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oh

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that’s the log file

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are you looking for that or the iso?

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@nocturne herald what are you looking for exactly?

nocturne herald
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Would require too much brain power and I'm in bed

dim hawk