>cant open explorer >uac doesnt work as well so you cannot dism/sfc >decide to fix it in winpe >find a random usb flash drive >borrow my dad's laptop to put ventoy and windows + linux isos on said usb >windows 11 is too large for fat32 >decide to put windows 8.1 iso instead >disable secure boot >ventoy doesnt work >decide to just flash a windows 11 image on the usb using rufus >boot to said image >can't mount main disk >use restart instead of shutdown to get past fast startup >still can't mount main disk >boot into windows recovery enviroment >go to cmd >FUCKING RECOVERY KEY >GET SAID KEY FROM MICROSOFT WEBSITE ON MY PHONE >MICROSOFT OF COURSE FUCKING LOGGED ME OUT SO I HAVE TO LOG IN >NOW I FUCKING NEED TO GET THE LOGIN CODE FROM MY EMAIL >SOMEHOW LOG INTO THE EMAIL ACCOUNT WITH THE PASSWORD TO IT BEING IN THE BACK OF MY HEAD >FINALLY LOG INTO THE ACCOUNT >THEY WANT ME TO PUT A PASSKEY >FUCK IT, SET UP THE PASSKEY >MANUALLY TYPE THE 8383929 CHARACTER LONG RECOVERY KEY INTO THE PROMPT >finally cmd opens >run sfc >wait some time for sfc to finish >"Windows Resource Protection did not find any intergrity violations" i fucking hate windows 11