I received an old desktop from a friend to tinker with, and after two fresh installs of Windows 10 on it, the thing still had 200GB of storage taken up on it. Because of this, I decided to wipe out the entire hard drive (used DBAN) and boot it up with a windows 10 ISO on a flash drive and go from there. Once all the boot priority settings were configured, ISO downloaded, etc., I plug the flash drive in and boot from it (made sure BIOS recognized it beforehand). Everything starts up fine, and then I'm hit with a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top lefthand corner.
All the hardware works fine seeing as it ran just fine before wiping the hard drive, all the BIOS boot settings seem to be correct, and the ISO was downloaded correctly (got it from Microsoft and then formatted it to the drive with Rufus). Is there anything I might have forgotten or horribly screwed up?
The computer is a Dell Studio 540s, if that helps at all. Not entirely sure of the exact motherboard model. Any help is greatly appreciated.
All the hardware works fine seeing as it ran just fine before wiping the hard drive, all the BIOS boot settings seem to be correct, and the ISO was downloaded correctly (got it from Microsoft and then formatted it to the drive with Rufus). Is there anything I might have forgotten or horribly screwed up?
The computer is a Dell Studio 540s, if that helps at all. Not entirely sure of the exact motherboard model. Any help is greatly appreciated.