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So I have a slight problem. Recently, my hard drive started to fail, so naturally i bought a new one and cloned my old one onto it. After Acronis was done cloning it, it rebooted the computer into Windows 10 and I logged on, but something was wrong. The screens kept flashing on and off, and none of my apps were on my desktop. The only thing that was there was the taskbar with the windows button, which I couldn't press. So I restarted it, and that's when I couldn't boot up. The dell logo appears, and sometimes either disappears and comes back and spins forever, or a black screen comes up with just my mouse and nothing else. I figured it couldn't POST, so I gradually unplugged my graphics card (and used an internal one) and got to one of my sticks of RAM while restarting every time, when the blue startup repair screen for Windows came up. So I clicked the repair button, which failed, so I started it up in safe mode. After clicking start in safe mode, it just went black. No dell logo or anything. All that was on the screen was "Safe Mode" in all four corners, and my mouse which I could move in the center. I have never seen anything like this, so if anyone could help me, that would be extremely helpful. Also, I tried booting up with my old drive, but nothing.

 

Specs:

GTX 970

16 GB RAM

SanDisk 960 GB SSD

Dell monitor

intel i7 4790

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Download a window recovery disc corresponding to your OS. install it to your usb, (All of this using another computer)
Boot up the fucked up one and boot from usb stick. Run fresh install, that should do the trick.

Problem with copying hdd/ssd to hdd/ssd is MAC address changes, that could be the source of the problem.
I can't just copy my HDD to a SSD and expect to be able to boot from the SSD. I don't know the theory behind
it but you can ask linustechtips to make a video about it.

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