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Grahamcrackuh13

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So lately on my gaming computer, windows has been piling files upon files onto my installation hard drive. I only have 40GB space to store windows on it along with 4 other 250GB hard drives for specific file storage. I decided to rid of my 40GB hard drive and put windows on one of my 250GB ones. Installation was working extremely well but then I got an error stating that the boot manager was compressed. I could not find a fix for this on the internet that worked. So I took all of my hard drives out and put only the installation disk and the hard drive I was installing on in. Then I got a grub rescue error. Tried a fix on that that didn't work. So I tried using BootNNuke on that hard drive so maybe it could clean it out and possibly be able to install it then, But then I got a "grub rescue" error again on the boot N nuke disc . I am stumped now and honestly have no more sideroads to take. I could really use some help.
 
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Tom Tancredi
Download DBAN and wipe the drive.

I will tell you right now, your build sound suspiciously like illegal Windows. As Windows does NOT use any Linux (GRUB) commands nor boot manager. The only way that is used with Windows is to circumvent the security (authentication) methodology of Windows when it boots, and allow you to run Windows 'unlicensed'.
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Download DBAN and wipe the drive.

I will tell you right now, your build sound suspiciously like illegal Windows. As Windows does NOT use any Linux (GRUB) commands nor boot manager. The only way that is used with Windows is to circumvent the security (authentication) methodology of Windows when it boots, and allow you to run Windows 'unlicensed'.
 
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Using Linux software to get around Windows activation isn't the way forw3rd here and we won't give advice on that aspect. If it isn't to late, use Easus or Acronis software to clone the 40Gb system on to the 250Gb drive if that original installation was legitimate.

The files that Windows was "piling" on to your disk are probabaly in the folder c:\windows \sxs which stands for side by side. A modern Windows system simply won't last long on a 40Gb disk.
 
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Grahamcrackuh13

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Well the thing is me being the idiot I am already clean out windows off of the 40GB hard drive. And as I said DBAN won't run. I put the disk in and it says "unknown file system: grub rescue"
 
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