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My computer recently crashed and said I had no os so I had a friend use media creation tool to download a fresh windows 10 install on a usb I plugged it in and ran the installer but when it went to restart the os wasn't found again the storage available of the disk went down as well I also,went through and formatted all drive but so far nothing has worked PLEASE HELP
 
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If you plugg one HDD/SSD to try to install Windows, the messages you get are from the Windows installer (DVD/USB), not from the BIOS, the BIOS can only give you such message when trying to boot from a HDD with Windows that has boot issues. The only way to find HDD issues is from a installed Windows or from a bootable recovery disk such as the Hiren's Boot CD/USB or similar.

It's not clear what you mean but in case you mean 3 separate drives going bad, no they can't all 3 fail at the same time... only way they can have booting issues is if you have a BIOS/motherboard issue.

From what I read, the problem I see is you may be having trouble following the correct Windows installation and disk diagnorse procedures...

1. Check the HDDs...
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Your hard disk may be failing... Same happened here and the HDD was the cause. I formatted it, installed, worked fine for hours, and after the first reboot... OS had disappeared. Viewing into it from another OS, it was all free disk space. Further checks found RAM and mobo issues.

Scan your HDD with Cristal Disk Info or Hard Disk Sentinel... if no definite cause, run Memtest86+
http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html
http://www.hdsentinel.com/
http://www.memtest.org/
 
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I have 3 drives and have tried individually plugging them in and installing windows with no other drives running. And I'm not getting an error my bios just says no os found
 
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I have 3 drives and have tried plugging them in individually and installing windows on all of them and they have all ben formatted seperately
 
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If i were to download those would i need to hook the drives up to another computer. also do you think it would be possible for 3 seperate drives to all do this at the same time?
 
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If you plugg one HDD/SSD to try to install Windows, the messages you get are from the Windows installer (DVD/USB), not from the BIOS, the BIOS can only give you such message when trying to boot from a HDD with Windows that has boot issues. The only way to find HDD issues is from a installed Windows or from a bootable recovery disk such as the Hiren's Boot CD/USB or similar.

It's not clear what you mean but in case you mean 3 separate drives going bad, no they can't all 3 fail at the same time... only way they can have booting issues is if you have a BIOS/motherboard issue.

From what I read, the problem I see is you may be having trouble following the correct Windows installation and disk diagnorse procedures...

1. Check the HDDs condition from another computer
2. Follow this Windows installation guide..
http://www.howtogeek.com/197559/how-to-install-windows-10-on-your-pc/

Guide for Windows 7 installation - for reference on pre-installation prepparations which cover all Windows version installations
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-7-install.html
 
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