Cant re-install windows after wiping hard drive.

Onify

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Mar 21, 2016
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My computer has been running really slow for the past month and I've tried a lot of different steps to attempt to fix it. As a last resort I used Dban to wipe the hardrive clean. After it was done I restarted my computer and I attempted to boot off of my windows 8.1 CD. After bios it went to the windows 10 loading screen and froze, without dots. I have a copy of windows 7, 8.1, 10, and Linux on CDs and it doesn't matter which one I put in to boot off of, it always gets stuck at the windows 10 loading screen. I am not sure what to do.
 


Go into BIOS, load optimized defaults, try again. This will clear any problems with boot device settings.
 

Onify

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Mar 21, 2016
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I tried to load OD from bios, and I also tried taking a single memory stick out. I sadly think it is the latter on this one, hopefully the local store is having an after-Christmas sale lol.
 

did you switch them out after ? just making sure you tried both of them as single.