My pc wont fully start. Please help me

adza botchway

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So the other day i wiped my 1 terabyte seagate barracuda hard drive so that i could take the old windows 7 32 bit operating system off and replace it with the newer windows 10 64 bit and i used a guide on toms hardware here, it was the tutorial on how to wipe a hard drive. It work and everything but now when i turn my computer on, itll load up the windows sign as well as the spinning load sign thing; then the screen just goes black. What do i do to fix this? Im decently sure its not any of the hardware that's causing this problem. I did use a windows 10 64 bit CD that my friend had already used, i just skipped the activation code part and its fine like that because all it does is take away the ability to customize the background and stuff like that. Im pretty sure i did everything correctly when wiping the hard drive. the things i used was an 8gb PNY usb with RUFUS 2.1 and DBAN on it and they worked perfectly fine. It took about 9 hours to wipe the HDD and after that i switched the boot drive back to the hard drive and it worked but now i just can't get passed the loading sign section when i turn my PC on.
 

Tom Keenan

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Well the only time I've seen something like what you're describing was my friends PC when he installed win 10 preview on his SSD. He kept getting blue screens and it'd crash and reboot. We ended up reformatting the disk through bios and reinstalled the OS and it worked.
 
from a working pc download this tool
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool
then download the 64 bit windows 10 iso from micosoft and make a new bootable usb stick.
boot from the usb stick and go into advance mode.
if you have just a hard drive go in and delete all of the partion on the hard drive if you dont care about the data.
then let windows 10 make new partion and install the os.
if the error still there look at your pc. if you have onboard video and a gpu then windows and your mb bios may be booting from onboard video. if it is get into the desktop then install any missing drivers and then change the primany display from ipgpu or auto to peg/pci of you have a gpu.
 

adza botchway

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Yeah thats what i figured i might just do. i have the usb and everything to reformat the pc so i can just reinstall windows 10 again and it should work and yes my hardware is 64 bit capable. I have an fx-6300 and crucial ballistix sport 8 gb ram, r9 270x, etc. Its all 64 bit capable. i just actually found something and it's letting me completely reset the window 10 installation process. it might take a while so im letting it do that and coming back when its done