Formatted hard drive, now PC won't boot.

johnh545

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Oct 3, 2015
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Hi.
Recently my computer had been running really slow and the hard drive has been almost filled with programs I no longer use so I decided to format the hard drive and start again with a fresh install if windows 8.

I made a new partition on the hard drive of 100gb and then installed windows 8 to this partition. Then from within the new install of windows 8 I formatted the main partition wiping it completely. Now the computer won't boot. When I turn it on it just loads up a blue screen with the mouse cursor which I can move around but nothing else. No icons or anything.
What have I done wrong and how can I fix it?
 
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Sounds like you really screwed it up by accident ;).

Rather than making partitions and then installing Windows on that, use the installer's formatting option to do that. If it still gives you issues, make the disk one partition and after install is complete you can shrink the partition from within window's disk manager.
Sounds like you really screwed it up by accident ;).

Rather than making partitions and then installing Windows on that, use the installer's formatting option to do that. If it still gives you issues, make the disk one partition and after install is complete you can shrink the partition from within window's disk manager.
 
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