Windows [11] could not update the computer's boot configuration

Anonymous
2022-10-23T01:06:29+00:00

I can't reinstall Windows 11 due to this error.

All the "fixes" online disable Secure Boot/UEFI, which prevents Windows 11 from installing due to the system requirements not being met.

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-01-02T23:40:09+00:00

    Thanks, TheTank20,

    You are quite right. Win11 won't install if it doesn't have complete control over its EFI, reserve, and recovery partitions, as well as its own C:\ partition. So best thing to do if you are reinstalling Win11 is delete all Win11 partitions, including the EFI (ESP) partition, make them "unallocated", and then reinstall Win11. If you are dual booting Linux, you then have to reinstall the EFI entries into /boot/efi/EFI/fedora (or whatever). If anybody needs help with the latter, just let me know.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-01-02T00:44:12+00:00

    umm... which partition are you suggesting I delete?

    At the moment, I have (at least) 3 partitions associated with Windows 11:

    1. EFI System (500 MB)
    2. Microsoft Reserved (16 MB)
    3. Microsoft basic data (240 GB)

    Windows 11 is supposed to load into (3) above. But it can't update (1) above and so is failing. I suspect that what Windows wants is for me to delete all three partitions so that it can create its own EFI partition. Correct?

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-01-02T00:15:08+00:00

    Delete the partition, then try to install again.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-01-02T00:09:11+00:00

    So what did you do to solve the problem? I already have an EFI boot partition. How do you make Windows update it?

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