I'm about to install Fedora 41

It seems like the best option at this point would be to skip the media test and go straight to the install. :man_shrugging:

If my media is corrupt, don’t you think it could damage my laptop ?

I’ll try to boot it with Rufus, not with Fedora Writer. It seems to pass the test for some people

It seems to work with Rufus !

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Okay guys I’m f*cked up

I had an error while installing fedora, it was stopped and it was written “Device is active” and I restarted triyng to boot on windows and this appeared

I’m trying to reinstalling by using Fedora writer we will see…

Just curious but did you delete the existing windows partitions on your ssd before installing fedora to it?

If not, it is possible that installing fedora currupted the windows EFI files (needed for OS boot).

If you are trying to dual boot windows and fedora i would recommend running

sudo os-prober
sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub

To detect any other operating systems on the computer and add a grub entry for them.

I have no idea, It’s possible. I selected all the partitions to delete, that Fedora showed me

Please tell me there’s a solution

I just want to get rid of windows, no dual boot

There should be a solution, unfortunately i have not encountered this specific issue before.

My only other guess would be to check if you have secure boot enabled in you bios. This should not be an issue; however it could potentially block “other” operating systems (aka not what shipped with the computer) from loading.

Maybe I chose too much partitions ?

There is :

Unknown
Unknown
Bitlocker
ntfs

I chose to delete all these one, but maybe I just should delete one of them ? The bigger one is “Bitlocker” (no idea why it’s called like that)

(All this partitions are in the same ssd)

I tried to delete all of them at the exception of NTFS and still the issue

Ohhhh…

There is your issue. Bitlocker is the full disk encryption provided by Windows. Most likely the fedora installation image was unable to remove this Bitlocker partion, and when you rebooted widows detected a modification to the other partions causing it to not boot properly.

TLDR
You’ll need to disable Bitlocker in your windows install before you can fully install Fedora on the same SSD.

How can I disable bitlocker ? It is not supposed to be enabled because It’s windows family…

I cannot access to windows now, It’s broken

Do you have another PC to create a boot-able usb? If so, you can download a Windows ISO, boot from that, and repair your current windows install. Follow the instructions in the screenshot you provided earlier.

Once you are back in windows search for encryption in the start menu. This should bring up either the Bitlocker settings or the more simplified windows home encryption settings (which uses Bitlocker behind the scenes). It’s called Device encryption I guess

Edit: fixed spelling/grammer