Old windows still there in another boot mode?

Anonymous
2021-06-03T13:39:36+00:00

Hey, few days ago I had reinstalled windows on my PC from 32 bit to 64 bit but after that had to reset it cuz of start up issue.

But yesterday when I went to my bios( coz my cmos battery is damaged I had to put date and time and select "others" as my boot mode. There was another one bootmode called "windows 10 64-bit" that doesn't used to work but I remember I had installed my new windows in windows 10 64-bit mode and had to format my drives.)so yesterday when I went into my bios and selected "others" with uefi I went to repair mode and had startup error and when booting in from legacy I had the message "select or insert a bootable media and press a key" it was something like that. But after the installation I didn't had to go to my bios to select boot mode because it was alr selected to "windows 10 64-bit" mode. So the windows in my others is my old windows? Because If I reset it from repair mode to fix startup error will it be my old windows? Also will my data be in there, cuz I had formatted my drive while re-installing coz its a necessary step. So is it my old windows cuz I rlly rlly want it back. Booting from legacy says to put a bootable media and uefi takes me to repair screen as if there is windows there.

My 64bit windows is in other mode so yh if it is my old windows I'll reset from there and will I get my data too? And also if u have 2 windows in a PC and u format a drive from one windows does the storage of the other windows wipe out too.

Regards.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-06-16T14:53:53+00:00

    i have figured out how to change boot order but there are now 3 options to boot from "usb hard disk" "usb CD/DVD" "usb ST0v000 some thing like this" and "usb key" so, which one shall i boot from>???|
    regards.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-06-16T14:42:04+00:00

    hey , i am tryng to install windows in my legacy mode and have used rufus and selected "MBR" type and when when going to boot options - 1st option is " sata - and some numbers and letters"
    2nd option is "usb flash drive|
    tried selectiong both but in both the windows logo flashes for a milisecond and then theres just a line (-) flashing and nothing else...
    watched some yt tutorials and saw that changing boot order might work but idk how to change boot order.when i select the order there is no instruction on how to change it and get my usb on top..
    can u please help acordingly?
    regards.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-06-11T17:23:33+00:00

    OK thanks :) and also my other PC is having some issues the search bar is not working as soon as I click on it, it comes up and closes immediately, I have tried trouble shooting and even restarting file explorer but it doesn't work, can u tell me a fix to this?

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  4. Sumit 44,436 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2021-06-11T15:25:09+00:00

    If you do a clean install, the older trace would be gone.

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  5. Sumit 44,436 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2021-06-11T12:32:29+00:00

    Patience Ruchi. We are just volunteers here and there can be delays in replying.

    >> will there be only 1 drive to select from during installation? 

    Yes.

    >> And if I select win10 pro will my win10 home product key work for it

    Absolutely not. You would need to reinstall again. It should auto-detect Home/Home SL though.

    >>"windows cannot be installed on drive-" 

    There would be a message after that why you cannot do so. Let us know for the next steps.

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