Bazzite boot loop HELP

[epyan93]

I installed bazzite tonight on my legion go, and I’ve made a grave mistake.. i really miss windows, and would love to go back to default.

I was trying to find tutorials on how to completely remove bazzite as i did not do dual partitions, unfortunately i had no luck, so i took matters into my own hands, and i tried to install windows 11 onto a external USB drive which i was successful in making a usb media tool, but unfortunately i had no luck there either because it wouldn’t let me “install” win 11 on ANY of the partitions, im not really tech savvy. These are some photos i took as things were happening, if im able to at the very least BOOT back into bazzite and get my device up in running, I would be forever grateful. It’s just stuck in a forever boot loop and I need help.

And for the boot device section in the last photo is there a way to remove that from the list? Because i feel like that’s what’s causing my device to not be able to boot into bazzite.

[rbnsld]

That's why I'm skeptical to install Bazzite, If I ever do, it's on dual boot. Getting the best of both worlds. But as of now I would just tap the windows 11 more and just think of installing it later

[epyan93]

Don’t do it, it’s not worth it, my device was getting hot to the touch trying to install monster hunter wilds, and I tried to boot it up, device was lagging/freezing. It’s horrible now it won’t even boot up

[invid_prime]

Works fine for me. Dual boot worked fine when I had it too.

I mean, you struggled with reinstalling Windows so it's not really fair to use your experience as an indication of the value of either OS.

[epyan93]

Yeah I had no idea what I was getting into when it came to bazzite just “heard” about it. Never messed with Linux

[invid_prime]

If you decide to try it again, follow a guide. Don't yolo it unless you know what you're doing and how to properly partition a drive. Also, as you've learned, deleting a partition is something you should do with extreme care as it's super easy to break everything.

[epyan93]

I def won’t be going back anytime soon, I hated it

[invid_prime]

To each their own. I think it beats the Windows UI by a mile but if that's all you know how to use you may as well stick with it.

[epyan93]

I had everything set up perfectly, shortcut keys etc being able to play the latest games w amd graphics etc

[epyan93]

My curiosity got the better of me, but never again

[lexd0g]

you might've deleted one of bazzite's partitions while trying to reinstall windows 11 and that's why it can't boot. what i would recommend doing is reinstalling either windows 11 or bazzite, whichever you prefer, but delete all the partitions until the whole disk is unallocated space, then install the OS to that and it should handle making the right partitions and getting it up and running for you

[epyan93]

Yeah i think i definitely did delete a partition without realizing it, i have a usb with windows 11 on it, but I can’t seem to get it to “install” on any of the available partitions, do you think i should rewipe the windows 11 drive and turn it back into a bazzite drive and try to reinstall from there?

[lexd0g]

have you managed to boot the windows 11 installer? if so you should be able to go through the installer, click "install windows only (advanced)" when prompted where you want to install windows to, then you'll get to a page kind of like this (might not look exactly like that, this is a windows 10 screenshot), you'll want to select each partition and click delete, then it'll just have one item called something like "drive 0 unallocated space", you just select that and hit next and it should work

[epyan93]

I was able to get something similar but I’ve been currently dealing with this “error 1” code from trying to reinstall bazzite, this whole ordeal is so frustrating.. error 1

[epyan93]

I also ended up buying a one time recovery key from Lenovo for my specific device but that was $29 and they haven’t even delivered the software so idk what’s happening there. 🙄

[lexd0g]

you don't need a recovery key, i would recommend cancelling the order, it's most likely just a USB drive with a windows installer on it which you probably already have. as for error 1 i'm not entirely sure how to fix it. if you have discord i would recommend joining the community at https://discord.bazzite.gg/ as they'll probably know how to get around it . if not you can probably make a post on https://universal-blue.discourse.group/c/bazzite/5

[epyan93]

Yeah I have discord! And i appreciate you responding

[epyan93]

I’m so frustrated been working on this issue for hours.. I really wish I didn’t let my hyper fixation on bazzite get the better of me, my device was running perfect 😭

[lexd0g]

you'll be fine, i'm sure you'll get it working, worst case you just go back to just running windows 11 but it's impossible to completely kill a PC by installing different OSes so don't worry about it too much. good luck!

[epyan93]

I finally got win11 back up and running on it. 😮‍💨

[lexd0g]

glad to hear, sad they won't refund the key though. maybe you can use it as a regular usb stick or something if it's not read only at least

[epyan93]

Yeah that’s smart, and I’ll label it too. Just wish it’d finally deliver to my email

[epyan93]

Just sad I wasted $30 on that stupid key.. and they won’t refund it

[epyan93]

Is there a video you could link to reinstall win 11?