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Windows installation failed terribly

Owen the Trusty man
By Owen the Trusty man
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I got an old laptop and I’ve been trying to fix it. Since it wouldn’t boot into windows when I turned it on, I decided to reinstall windows onto it with a usb drive. The problem is that after plugging in the usb and going through the process of installing windows, the laptop ran out of battery during the installation. Ever since that has happened and I charged the laptop, it is stuck on the manufacturers boot screen infinitely loading. I’ve tried to open startup repair but I’ve had no luck. Bios works fine though. 

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5 minutes ago, Arika S said:

Plug in the usb and just install again? If you can get Into the bios, you can change the boot order

I guess I forgot to mention that in the thread. When I charged the laptop back up and plugged back in the usb that’s what happened. It gets stuck on the boot screen. I think I screwed it up because the laptop died like halfway through installing windows 

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Make yourself a Lubuntu live USB, boot to it and wipe the disk, overwriting with zeroes. This is generally a good thing to do before installing Windows on a newly-acquired system anyway. Then just run the Windows installer again and keep it plugged in this time.

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Turning off in the middle of install will bork your install but won't do anything to the hardware, just reinstall again. Get into the BIOS and change boot drive.

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14 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Turning off in the middle of install will bork your install but won't do anything to the hardware, just reinstall again. Get into the BIOS and change boot drive.

I’ve been trying to. I plug the usb into the laptop and change the boot drive to it and it just gets stuck in a infinite boot loop. Not sure why it wouldn’t just go back to the windows installer. I need to figure out a way to wipe the drive so I can basically start over.

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Try disconnecting the drive and see if it boots the installer. The installer USB could have been corrupted too and need redone. 

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12 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Try disconnecting the drive and see if it boots the installer. The installer USB could have been corrupted too and need redone. 

Starting the system without the usb shows the reason I knew to try to reinstall windows in the first place. It says there is no bootable device

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