Unable to boot back to windows and error while installing Manjaro

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Getting this error while installing Manjaro in dual boot.

The installer failed to create partition on disk ‘ST1000LM035-1RK172’
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Create a new partition (512.00 MiB, fat32) on ‘/dev/sda’
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Job: Create new partition on device ‘/dev/sda’
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Failed to add partition ‘New Partition’ to device ‘/dev/sda’

I’m installing Manjaro on a separate drive from where my windows is installed, but a guy on reddit said that I’ll have to shrink the windows volume and install it their.
So now the problem is I can’t move back to windows, whenever opening the PC, I’m simply getting the Manjaro boot menu, which asks to install as ‘Open Source’ or ‘Proprietary’ software and other options. I tried going to BIOS setup but apparently, unable to enable the secure boot option as well.

Any help on this? Can I solve this error from Manjaro interface or if not, how do I move back to windows?

Specifications:
RAM: 4GB
Processor: Intel i3, 2GHZ
Manjaro XFCE, Qonos 21.2.2

Images:
The partition I proceeded with: https://i.imgur.com/9ggTH6w.jpg
The BIOS settings, unable to enable Secure Boot: https://i.imgur.com/1te4sDx.jpg
Also when I remove my USB and restart my PC, I get this screen saying ‘No bootable device’: https://i.imgur.com/L6QBXu2.jpg

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Read those, I hope it helps you:

https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=GRUB/Restore_the_GRUB_Bootloader

Try uploading images using imgur

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Hi @ineedserioushelp, and welcome!

  1. Please see [HowTo] post screenshots and links with regards to thee images.
  2. That screen where you have to select between open-source and proprietary drivers is the boot ISO environments. So it doesn’t start from the HDD/SSD, it tries to start the ISO environment, which is usually a USB thumb drive lately.

Further, please see [HowTo] Provide System Information.

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Thanks! Here are the images:
The partition I proceeded with: https://i.imgur.com/9ggTH6w.jpg
The BIOS settings, unable to enable Secure Boot: https://i.imgur.com/1te4sDx.jpg
Also when I remove my USB and restart my PC, I get this screen saying ‘No bootable device’: https://i.imgur.com/L6QBXu2.jpg

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see this

before installing
ALWAYS recheck options in UEFI

secure boot off
fast boot off
csm off
legacy off
drivers on AHCI ( not raid )
no optane RST

it easy to check before installing from USB live manjaro
open a terminal

inxi  -Fxza
test -d /sys/firmware/efi && echo efi || echo bios
sudo efibootmgr -v
sudo parted -l

if you get MBR instead of UEFI that you have not checked BEFORE installing

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I’ve disabled secure boot, fast boot, legacy. Can’t find the AHCI and Optane RST option in the BIOS settings tho.
While running the above command, I do get

scheme: MBR

The second commands echos BIOS and the last one prints out these values:

BootCurrent: 0002
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 2001,2002,2004
Boot0002* USB Hard Drive (UEFI) - SanDisk (SanDisk)
Boot2001* EFI USB Device
Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM

TBH, I don’t exactly know what most of these mean, I’m a complete newbie to this.

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But I haven’t installed Manjaro yet (or can’t for now…), so I’m unable to use most of the commands listed there, also I can’t install refind, it says

error: target not found: refind-efi
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BootCurrent: 0002
Timeout: 0 seconds
BootOrder: 2001,2002,2004
Boot0002* USB Hard Drive (UEFI) - SanDisk (SanDisk)
Boot2001* EFI USB Device
Boot2002* EFI DVD/CDROM

I don’t exactly know what most of these mean

There is no boot entry for Windows, it means grub wont show up a windows entry to boot in.

Try this (from a live usb):

sudo update-grub

And then see if something change in:

efibootmgr -v