Hello everyone! So my pc is booting up to a black screen with a blinking underscore in the top left corner.
I always leave the pc asleep as opposed to shutdown. The other night I went to switch the computer on to find it was already switched on, but because it won't display on my TV unless the TV is switched on first, I hard shutdown the computer and rebooted it to be greeted with this black screen and blinking underscore.
My PC build is:
Motherboard - ASRock Z77 Fatal1ty Professional-M
HDD - Seagate Barracuda 2TB
CPU - Intel Core i5-3570k
RAM - TeamGroup Elite Black 2 x 4GB DDR3
Graphics Card - Radon R9 280x 3Gb
PSU - Corsair Builder Series CX 600w
CD Drive - Overclockers Bluray Rom
OS - Windows 10 x64
Boring bit over (kinda). Anyway I downloaded the Windows 10 media creation tool, created an iso file and burnt it to a dvd. Launched the pc again with the bios set up to boot from the bluray drive first. But nothing. Maybe the dvd itself corrupt I don't know, was too annoyed to try another copy. I used my windows 8 cd just to see if anything would boot and right enough the Windows logo appeared. I switched the pc off at this point as I didn't want to lose my copy of Windows 10.
Anyhow, in my exasperation I turn here. If I were to use my windows 8 cd I guess I would find out if the hard drive is dead? But if it's not would I lose my windows 10 os? Is there anything I can do to fix this? Any feedback greatly appreciated.
I always leave the pc asleep as opposed to shutdown. The other night I went to switch the computer on to find it was already switched on, but because it won't display on my TV unless the TV is switched on first, I hard shutdown the computer and rebooted it to be greeted with this black screen and blinking underscore.
My PC build is:
Motherboard - ASRock Z77 Fatal1ty Professional-M
HDD - Seagate Barracuda 2TB
CPU - Intel Core i5-3570k
RAM - TeamGroup Elite Black 2 x 4GB DDR3
Graphics Card - Radon R9 280x 3Gb
PSU - Corsair Builder Series CX 600w
CD Drive - Overclockers Bluray Rom
OS - Windows 10 x64
Boring bit over (kinda). Anyway I downloaded the Windows 10 media creation tool, created an iso file and burnt it to a dvd. Launched the pc again with the bios set up to boot from the bluray drive first. But nothing. Maybe the dvd itself corrupt I don't know, was too annoyed to try another copy. I used my windows 8 cd just to see if anything would boot and right enough the Windows logo appeared. I switched the pc off at this point as I didn't want to lose my copy of Windows 10.
Anyhow, in my exasperation I turn here. If I were to use my windows 8 cd I guess I would find out if the hard drive is dead? But if it's not would I lose my windows 10 os? Is there anything I can do to fix this? Any feedback greatly appreciated.
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