MX Linux Forum

Ok so first of all, this is Hands Down the best forum, NOT!!!! not correct at all. Not with the kinds of comments that people make towards one another here.
This is not the best forum. This forum is just a place the some of the most amazing, selfLESS, smart and helpful people come together. (I had ...

Based on all of the information that everyone has been willing to provide, I am going to:
1.back up all of my windows files to an external hdd
2.purchase an additional external hdd
3.download an iso file of windows10 and load it onto a usb
4.disconnect my current internal HDD (the one that has my ...

I am going to attempt to attach a picture of my screen and the options it shows me. Photos were way to big.

When I disconnected my external hard drive and live usb with mx linux i got a screen that said:
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welcome to GRUB!
error: no such device: Ob32a1d3-1793................
error ...

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IIRC, HP's go into UEFI-firmware setup ( aka "BIOS" setup) by pressing Esc at boot/start up.
and further press F10 / F9 (?)., where you would find the Boot priority and BIOS/UEFI settings.
Some do also offer to try to boot first from ESP ( EFI System Partition) and if no valid EFI ...

Oh, 1 other question, this operating system is the one that one on this pc when I got it so I dont have the CD. How will I go about reinstalling Windows and also could me restore points from my current windows come into play when I'm reinstalling windows?

where do i do that at, in the bios?

IIRC, HP's go into UEFI-firmware setup ( aka "BIOS" setup) by pressing Esc at boot/start up.
and further press F10 / F9 (?)., where you would find the Boot priority and BIOS/UEFI settings.
Some do also offer to try to boot first from ESP ( EFI System ...

thats not working either

where do i do that at, in the bios?

Did I edit w/ the code thing correctly?

I was thinking that the windows live usb would act like a boot floopy, IDK?

should i make a windows live usb drive