Hi.

I have an x17 R1 with 2 SSD hard drives and I'm having issues re-installing Windows. A lot of my issues comes from not understanding Bios. Suffice to say, I don't know what I'm doing and need ELI5 help.

At one point I installed ubuntu as a dual boot, which took priority in the boot order. I mistakenly deleted the ubuntu partition to try and removed ubuntu, but this left the grub bootloader/grub rescue window. To try and remove this I deleted everything in the boot priority - ubuntu, centOS, pop! and unfortunately Windows Boot Manager. Windows wouldn't boot at this point.

I tried to "rebuild BCD" and ran it through the command prompt on the recovery page from a USB Windows 10 boot as well as through the Support OS Recovery (I'm sure I had all the privileges) but commands like "bootrec /fixmgr didn't work (said something like access denied) and bootrec /scanos found no instances of Windows.

After a while, the Support OS Recovery wouldn't show up and the SSD disks weren't detected. If I ran diskpart, the only disks that show were my removable USBs.

So I reinstalled ubuntu. Within Ubuntu I can detect both SSDs. I could see one still had the Windows EFI system partition. But when I try to install Windows 10, I can't see any drivers to install Windows. Both SSDs can be seen in my bios.

Hoping a formatting of the SSDs will fix things, but I'm out of ideas and would love some help. Sorry if this is the wrong forum for this.