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Win10 Reset This PC/Recovery Drive fails, overwrites wrong drive!

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System: Lenovo Thinkpad P51, 2 drives, 1 x NVMe, 1 x HDD.

I replaced the NVMe drive and attempted to reinstall Windows using a USB Recovery drive created on this system before any problems.  This failed and would have resulted in data loss if I didn't have other backups.  From my perspective, there seem to be a number of critical bugs in this recovery environment for machines with more than 1 drive.

Steps:

  1. booted from USB recovery drive
  2. Select Troubleshoot
  3. Select Recover from a drive
  4. Select either Just remove my files or Fully clean the drive

Result:

  1. Appears to be working, but fails at 77% in.   Error message "There was a problem resetting your PC. No changes were made."
  2. There was no prompt for which drive to use.  The existing HDD was silently repartitioned.  No changes were made is an incorrect statement.  There was no windows install on the HDD.
  3. The repartitioned HDD was never made bootable. So the system still can't boot into Windows.

Problems/Bugs:

  1. No prompt for which drive to reset/install windows on.
  2. No information about which drive has been selected before prompting to proceed.
  3. Misleading information "No changes were made". when one of the drives had been repartitioned.
  4. No information about what failed or how to get to any logs.   How should someone attempt to troubleshoot the problem?
  5. There doesn't seem to be an option to force a particular drive to be used as the system drive.
  6. Some of the menus for Troubleshoot are lacking "Back".  In some cases you need to select an operation before you get to a point where you can hit cancel.  There are no assurances when you select those options that you will be given a chance to cancel.

Questions:

  1. Is the reset my PC / Recovery drive utility usable on a multi-drive system?
  2. Without physically removing drives (the bios/uefi doesn't have a disable option AFAICT) how do I set which drive is the system drive to be installed/updated/etc.?
  3. Should I be attempting to file any bug reports? 

Note: I'm aware that I should be able to use the media creation tool on another system to do a generic Windows 10 install.  However, I'd prefer to reinstall the factory environment with the OEM drivers already installed.


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