Windows 10 install gone wrong

ChetwoodJ96 · March 21, 2018

My friend Mark tried upgrading from Win8 to Win10 and shot me a message saying he thought his HDD went bad, because his Win8 version was gone but it wouldn't take 10.

When I got my new Motherboard and SSD, I had the same issue where it would restart as part of the process, and send me back to the start of it. As this was a fresh system, there was no other OS, my solution was just to format the drive again and see what happened, but this worked for me. As far as I know, he's formatted his drive and it's given him no results.

aaronhare · March 21, 2018

Just format the drive and then just reinstall Windows 10 from a flash drive. That will work. Good luck!

ChetwoodJ96 · March 21, 2018

16 minutes ago, AaronsDev said:

Just format the drive and then just reinstall Windows 10 from a flash drive. That will work. Good luck!

Well unfortunately that's something I've stated that has been tried.

Ace McPlane · March 21, 2018

1 hour ago, ChetwoodJ96 said:

Well unfortunately that's something I've stated that has been tried.

Maybe they're formatting to the wrong file system type?

My suggestion is for them to start the installation process over again and when they get to the screen to format the drives, just to delete every partition until all that's left is unallocated space... then highlight it and click next.

This way Windows will automatically format everything correctly for windows to be installed.

I've seen doing it this way get around some weird hickups like this so something to try.