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After a failed Win 11 update, I now get 2 options to choose which OS 2 to boot from. I only have Win 11 on one drive and it now thinks there are 2 Win 11's on the same drive. I have finally manage to get it to boot to desktop and have looked at the system config, and under boot, I now 2 option for windows to boot from. On the boot screen if I choose the wrong win 11 OS computer will just keep rebooting itself. Can anyone tell me which of the 2 I should keep and which one should I delete. I have Win 11 on a USB stick and booted from that to get to repair mode and finally got to desktop. This is on a desktop computer with win 11 installed on a Crucial T500 2TB SSD PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 Internal Gaming SSD. I am going to leave my PC on for now as I cannot work out which of the 2 is the correct one to get rid of.
Thank you in advance regards
H.
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Answer accepted by question author
Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.
Open that Msconfig utility again and on the Boot tab, select the top option in your screenshot and delete it.
Do Not touch the bottom entry labelled Current OS; Default OS, because that is the correct entry.
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Answer accepted by question author
Hello,
You can delete the entry on top (the $Windows.~BT), as this is just a cleanup file folder. Your system will not be affected in any sort of way, and your system will successfully boot. Just don't mess with the second entry because that is the real Windows 11.
Let me know how this goes.
Answer accepted by question author
Hello,
You should be able to delete the top two safely.
If you need your BitLocker recovery key, you can go to https://aka.ms/recoverykey to find it. Make sure to sign into the Microsoft Account that you linked Windows to.
Let me know how this goes.
Hello,
Could you open msconfig from the Start Menu, press "Boot" at the top, and then take a screenshot of what you see?
Hope to hear back from you.
Removing that top option worked and now back to booting as it should. Thank you. I have been building my own PC's for decades and never had anything like this happen before.. Thank you again.
