Uninstalling Proxmox and reinstalling windows

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WhosBoo04

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Hello,

I have recently downloaded proxmox ve on my laptop but I am trying to revert my laptop back into a windows machine because I am looking to sell it. But ever since I downloaded proxmox and I try to use windows installer and I get to the partition drive screen my nvme is showing up and I cant delete or select any drive that is there. How can I fix this and get windows back?
 
within Windows installer, you can press "Shift + F10" to open command line to call diskpart utility.
within diskpart, select your disk like command "select disk 0" , then "clean" to wipe partition table.
Then Windows installer can continue.
 
_gabriel said:
within Windows installer, you can press "Shift + F10" to open command line to call diskpart utility.
within diskpart, select your disk like command "select disk 0" , then "clean" to wipe partition table.
Then Windows installer can continue.
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Just tried that, I only had one disk inside and Im pretty sure I just wiped the USB drive. No other drives are showing up in that part. But If I go into BIOS I can see the NVMe in the bios
 
I bet on Dell manufacturer which not enable standard storage controller.
The easiest is to set storage controller to standard one / native for Windows, instead special set from Dell.
Search yourself on the net to do it.
To prevent cleaning the wrong disk, "list disk" with command within diskpart.
 
_gabriel said:
I bet on Dell manufacturer which not enable standard storage controller.
The easiest is to set storage controller to standard one / native for Windows, instead special set from Dell.
Search yourself on the net to do it.
To prevent cleaning the wrong disk, "list disk" with command within diskpart.
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I have a gigabyte laptop. Its weird though. No matter what I do the NVMe is not showing up. But again I go into my bios and there it is sitting in the storage section.
 
WhosBoo04 said:
Hello,

I have recently downloaded proxmox ve on my laptop but I am trying to revert my laptop back into a windows machine because I am looking to sell it. But ever since I downloaded proxmox and I try to use windows installer and I get to the partition drive screen my nvme is showing up and I cant delete or select any drive that is there. How can I fix this and get windows back?
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The way I always used to do it is to either put the GParted ISO or the latest Ubuntu ISO on a USB stick, boot from that USB stick and then open GParted inside that live environment and wipe my disks from there.
 
aabraham said:
The way I always used to do it is to either put the GParted ISO or the latest Ubuntu ISO on a USB stick, boot from that USB stick and then open GParted inside that live environment and wipe my disks from there.
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OP has problem detecting NVMe within Windows installer because manufacturer enable Intel RST / VMD which turning off standard NVMe or SATA controller.
Like Dell but many manufacturers too, so Intel RST drivers are required,
Link I shared explain this common issue.
 
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