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So earlier yesterday my computer randomly went into self repair and it wasnt able to so I talked to microsoft support and they talked me through making and installing a booting drive and they said that would fix it, but it didnt know when I try to boot I get a blinking underscore :/ anyone know whats wrong and how I should go about fixing? Windows 10.

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Specs? I think it's looking for something to boot from, can you enter the BIOS?

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2 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Specs? I think it's looking for something to boot from, can you enter the BIOS?

i5 2500, 120 gb ssd and 500 gb hhd. I could. tried legacy booting from each drive to the same result. 

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Just now, MattLY said:

i5 2500, 120 gb ssd and 500 gb hhd. I could. tried legacy booting from each drive to the same result. 

What motherboard? Try removing RAM, although I doubt it will do anything, it might help.

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Just now, kelvinhall05 said:

What motherboard? Try removing RAM, although I doubt it will do anything, it might help.

Random foxconn one, Im really not sure. Thats worth a shot. 

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Make sure there is nothing in any of the drives (music CDs, thumb drives anything) set the BIOS so that the one and only drive in the Boot order is that which contains the Windows installation files . 

 

  In the 'old days' when a system tried to boot if it failed it would go into the next item in the boot order but with the advent of ten (see assumptions, more rather than less info please) the system does not run through the boot order in the same way Now the Bios may think it has found a drive, if it discovers any sort of file system, and the system just waits there waiting on something happening.

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