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it's Friday night, what's everyone doing this weekend? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mine is going to be laid back if all goes according to plan. I'm going to do some birding with a friend tomorrow morning, then I'm headed to a used bookstore to buy a copy of "the pricess bride" that I talked myself out of the other day (I've never read it). Then I'm hitting the farmers market and then relaxing at home for the foreseeable future. Enjoy your weekend!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I built a desktop for VR, just received my Index in the mail, and have spent the last 3 days desperately trying to install Windows.

Nothing I’ve tried has worked and my computer confidence is shattered lol. I may get high and try again. Maybe my wife helps. She’s great at being calm.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Happy to try and help get Windows installed - I'm not much better than a YouTube video but sometimes talking it out helps.

Good luck with the VR rig! They're so much fun!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Happy to get any input from anyone on this so I do appreciate the offer :)

I have 2 nvme drives that are completely empty and have been formatted and drive partitions deleted several times.

Every time I install windows from a usb key, the installation goes without a hitch up until the installation restart. Then, my motherboard gives me the error: B1InitializeLibrary failed 0xc00000bb.

All the advice online that I can find involves trying to repair the installation using bootrec.exe and fixing mbr and rebuilding bcd. I get weird errors that differ every time when I do this.

The most painful part of this all is that the very first time I installed windows, it all worked perfectly. I fucked it all up when I decided to install Fedora Linux on the second drive. It messed up booting and everything since.

I can install Fedora Linux on any of these two nvme drives and boot to them perfectly without any issues which means this is not a hardware issue. Blaaaahhh. I just wanna use my new Index 😭

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is certainly strange! I can't seem to find much online about the issue, though I saw a couple of recommendations about disabling Secure Boot. I'm not sure why that would make a difference (especially given Microsoft's involvement with OEMs and Secure Boot...) and it probably wouldn't be the best thing to keep turned off permanently (or rather, as a "disclaimer": if you haven't already, do a bit of light researching on secure boot and why it exists) but it wouldn't hurt to try turning it off temporarily (if its not already off) to see if that gets past the error.

I did get a chuckle out of this bit from Microsoft's docs on the error:

Cause: This problem occurs because the boot firmware on the computer generates lots of memory fragmentation.

Workaround: We recommend that you do not let boot firmware create large amounts of fragmentation. Large memory fragmentation degrades the overall startup performance and causes problems.

Ah that's real helpful Microsoft, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ya that was one of the things I’ve tried. I’m going to try disconnecting all my hard drives except for the one I want windows on and buy a brand new usb stick and hope for the best.