1-partition-en.md

Running Windows on the Xiaomi Pad 5

Installation

Prerequisites

• Brain

• Recovery Image

• Android platform tools

Notes:

Note

Don't know how to start? Just unzip the downloaded Android platform tools, for example "C:\platform-tools" then open command prompt or powershell as administrator and type:

cd "path\to\platform-tools"

Replace "path\to\platform-tools" with the actual path of the platform tools folder

Warning

if you delete any partitions via diskpart later on or now, windows will send a ufs command that gets misinterpreted which erase all your ufs

All your data will be erased! Backup now if needed.

These commands have been tested.

DO NOT REBOOT YOUR TABLET if you think you made a mistake, ask for help in the Telegram chat

PLEASE DON'T USE OUTDATED VIDEO GUIDES ON YOUTUBE OR ANY OTHER PLATFORM! THESE VIDEOS ARE OUTDATED AND YOU CAN BRICK YOUR DEVICE USING THEM! IF YOU NEED A VIDEO GUIDE, USE THIS NEW VIDEO GUIDE FROM ArtoSeVeN

Partitioning your device and backup boot

Boot recovery through the PC with the command

fastboot boot <recovery.img>

Partitioning your device

If it asks you to run it once again, do so

This is optional, but you can also set custom sizes (by default, it splits the storage in half)

To set custom sizes do adb shell partition [TARGET WINDOWS SIZE IN GB]

Make sure you do not add GB at the end, just the number

adb shell partition

Make a backup of your existing boot image

adb shell "dd if=/dev/block/platform/soc/1d84000.ufshc/by-name/boot$(getprop ro.boot.slot_suffix) of=/tmp/normal_boot.img" && adb pull /tmp/normal_boot.img

Check if Android still starts

Reboot to check if Android still works. If it doesn't boot, wipe all data in recovery and try again.

adb reboot

Next step: Get Root