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I have a dell xps studio 8000 that I've tried installing both windows 7(bootable usb) and 8.1(retail disc) on and both freeze at their respective windows logo while they're loading. I've tried it with several different blank HDDs with clean partitions made on them.

With 8.1 it freezes just as the little white dots appear beneath the logo.

Not sure what to try now
 
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I wouldn't make clean partitions, I would just have one HDD in the XPS, use DBAN to wipe it clean. If errors occur or takes ALOT of hours to wipe the drive there is a problem with the hardware (first try with another drive). Then install off the retail disc it will auto format (you do NOT want multiple partitions since Windows 7 came out) and should start, but will take a while to pull down drivers (you do need to be connected to the internet during all this).

Personally I wouldn't even bother, as this machine came out back in 2009, its hardware is unsupported, the warranty on the hardware ended in 2012, so all the hardware is potentially able to FAIL at any time with no reason other then being 'worn out'.
 
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Sorry still trying to build my knowledge on all these topics. What I did was take a hard drive that had files on it previously, put it in an HDD Dock and from the computer I connected the dock to, I went to disk management and deleted the partitions on that docked drive. Then set up a new healthy partition on it's then unallocated space.

This is not the correct way to make the drive ready for a new installation?

I have a retail copy of windows 8.1 that freezes just as the logo appears. The little white dots appear beneath the logo and freeze. Then nothing happens. I let it stand for about 30min and still nothing. So I'm pursuing other avenues
 
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Just did, about to download. Will this detect and work with an HDD that's connected to the tower via dock? Would be nice if I didn't have to pop the side open and root around my drawers for another sata cable lol
 
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No. You are to use this as I instructed, or else you may inadvertantly wipe the Tower's drives. The dock is only used to hot swappable access to drives, for example at a company and they discharge a department of workers, you want to do several machines quickly, you would reimage to the dock then plug the drive in the PC to let SysPrep do its thing, then onto the next one.
 
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