Problem with installing windows 10

[eliaramon]

Hello dear reader,

 

I tried to install windows 10 from a USB stick but it is stuck on a loading screen from the motherboard.

 

My setup includes:

• Aorus B550 Pro Ac (rev. 1.x)
• AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (I couldn’t afford a better CPU because of the chip shortage)
• Gigabyte GTX 1650 Eagle OC 4GB (I couldn’t afford a better GPU because of the chip shortage)
• Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB
• Corsair Vengeance (2x 8 GB, DDR4-3200)
• PSU, fans, etc.

I prepared a boot stick on my laptop and got in the BIOS. The motherboard recognized both drives (USB and SSD). I checked that the fans were all in the correct port and forgot to look if XMP was enabled. Though I can always change this later. Because the USB stick was the first in the boot order I saved and exited. Then I got to the windows install menu where I did the following things:

1. Skipping the product key page
2. Choosing custom install
3. Formatting the SSD
4. Creating new partitions where windows was then being installed

My computer restarted itself and I got into the BIOS to check whether the USB stick was still first in the boot sequence (it wasn’t). I know that at this point the stick shouldn’t be first in the boot order because it would go into a loop. So everything was correct. I decided to save and exit. Then I pulled the USB stick out and the computer restarted itself. On the screen is now for nearly three hours the loading screen of the motherboard. The fans are slowly spinning, so I know the computer is doing something.

 

Two weeks prior to that I tried to install windows on the same setup but with an older GPU and with a SATA SSD. The same thing happened as now. I believed something was wrong with the SSD because I formatted it in Linux and it destroyed the master boot record (MBR).

 

How should I proceed?

Thank you for your help in advance.

 

 

[cacoe]

You could run the windows installer and at the first screen, hit shift+f10 to get command prompt and try the following -

 

https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/format-hard-drive-command-prompt,37632.html

 

Which should format the drive, the clean command should clear mbr too afaik

 

Only having your installation drive connected at the time of installation has helped me in the past too.

[avg123]

why do you need to change the boot order to boot from BIOS?

dont you get the option to choose the boot device when you press F12 during start up?

 

keep the boot order to ssd first. plug in the usb

when starting up, press F12 and boot from the usb

then go through the windows set up process and when it restarts, it should boot from ssd

[eliaramon]

1 hour ago, avg123 said:

why do you need to change the boot order to boot from BIOS?

dont you get the option to choose the boot device when you press F12 during start up?

 

keep the boot order to ssd first. plug in the usb

when starting up, press F12 and boot from the usb

then go through the windows set up process and when it restarts, it should boot from ssd

Thank you for your suggestion. I kept the boot order to SSD first. Then I pressed F12 on startup and booted from the USB stick. Now i went through the windows setup. The windows loading screen is showing for about 45 minutes. I keep you updated on the progress.

[eliaramon]

1 hour ago, cacoe said:

You could run the windows installer and at the first screen, hit shift+f10 to get command prompt and try the following -

 

https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/format-hard-drive-command-prompt,37632.html

 

Which should format the drive, the clean command should clear mbr too afaik

 

Only having your installation drive connected at the time of installation has helped me in the past too.

Thanks for your help. I'll try to wipe the drive clean if another option that I'm trying out now doesn't suffice.

[avg123]

1 hour ago, eliaramon said:

Thank you for your suggestion. I kept the boot order to SSD first. Then I pressed F12 on startup and booted from the USB stick. Now i went through the windows setup. The windows loading screen is showing for about 45 minutes. I keep you updated on the progress.

Where did you get the windows iso?

can you download the iso again?

goto to this link

Download Windows 10 (microsoft.com)

download the Media creation link and download an iso.

next download rufus

Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

and create a bootable usb 

 

select gpt partition scheme

 

have you changed any bios settings? try resetting the bios settings.

 

 

[eliaramon]

1 hour ago, avg123 said:

Where did you get the windows iso?

can you download the iso again?

goto to this link

Download Windows 10 (microsoft.com)

download the Media creation link and download an iso.

next download rufus

Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

and create a bootable usb 

 

select gpt partition scheme

 

have you changed any bios settings? try resetting the bios settings.

 

 

I pressed the reset button and somehow the windows repair menu launched. So I followed through with it and finished the installation of windows.

I manually initiated the installation of the latest Nvidia drivers and the Geforce experience. I restarted the pc (as one is supposed to do) and now there is a loading screen for an hour. Does it always take this long for the drivers to be installed? Is this normal?

And again thanks for your help.