PC doesn't boot and the internal hard drive displays wierd characters

[sirfulgerul]

Hello guys,

I bought a used harddrive from someone and first time as I connected it to 1 of my pcs it displayed wierd characters *keep in mind that the pc that I put it first in doesn't have an OS installed*. I thought i need to format it and i put it in my 2nd pc that has windows on it. Everything fine it showed me the hard drive i format it and also put as a test few files on it. Now I put it again in the pc that doesn't have OS installed and when I try to boot the windows cd it keeps showing me wierd characters.

Images:
https://imgur.com/a/V09VCd7

P.S: I formated the hard drive in NTFS format.

P.S2: I put EaseUS on a usb stick and the hard drive is normaly displayed.

 

[little_me]

Asking the obvious, you did delete the other 2 or 3 hidden partitions from it, right?
since windows likes to create other partitions for booting, recovery and whatnot else.

reason for said weird characters is most likely because said boot partition data is corrupted, which might be fixed by simple removal.
boot order might be something else besides CD/DVD first and it tries to boot from disk, and fails. (should skip it normally if disk is empty)

so.. put it back on 2nd computer with windows, open disk management and delete ALL partitions from the disk. Windows installer should be then able to do as it wants with it on the 1st computer.

 

[sirfulgerul]

Asking the obvious, you did delete the other 2 or 3 hidden partitions from it, right?
since windows likes to create other partitions for booting, recovery and whatnot else.

reason for said weird characters is most likely because said boot partition data is corrupted, which might be fixed by simple removal.
boot order might be something else besides CD/DVD first and it tries to boot from disk, and fails. (should skip it normally if disk is empty)

so.. put it back on 2nd computer with windows, open disk management and delete ALL partitions from the disk. Windows installer should be then able to do as it wants with it on the 1st computer.

I am wiping now the partition using EaseUS and creating it again. I do not have much experience with used hard drives as I only had till today new ones . I hope by removing the hidden partitions u mean wiping the whole hard drive.

 

[sirfulgerul]

Asking the obvious, you did delete the other 2 or 3 hidden partitions from it, right?
since windows likes to create other partitions for booting, recovery and whatnot else.

reason for said weird characters is most likely because said boot partition data is corrupted, which might be fixed by simple removal.
boot order might be something else besides CD/DVD first and it tries to boot from disk, and fails. (should skip it normally if disk is empty)

so.. put it back on 2nd computer with windows, open disk management and delete ALL partitions from the disk. Windows installer should be then able to do as it wants with it on the 1st computer.

I put it in the 2nd pc and when I opened disk management , there aren't any partitions for disk 1 . http://prntscr.com/k9hisk
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[smorizio]

https://commandwindows.com/diskpart.htm
put the disk in the other computer boot off of new windows 10 usb stick go into tools and run diskpart. do the clean command and then do mbr command to remove it. if those errors show up again check the drive firmware with the vendor software make sure it not damaged or infected. may be a sign that the controller chip is bad.

 

[sirfulgerul]

Thank you all for thanking your time to help me solve my problem.

So this is what I did.

As @smorizio sugested I should run a "clean" on my hard drive.

Windows + R , I typed in CMD and then "diskpart"
Afther that I typed "list disk"
then because I already had a hard drive in my pc I selected "select disk 1" it might be another number for you so be careful
then after I selected I typed in "clean" after few seconds I recieved a message "Sucessful cleaned the disk" or something like that
After that I opened Disk Management and it pop up that I should select between MBR and GPT for my disk 1 , I selected "MBR"
Then I went back to diskpart , selected again disk 1 and then typed "create partition primary"
After that I went back again to disk management and right click on my partition and clicked "Change Drive Letter and paths" and then clicked on "ADD" and assigned a random letter.
After that everything worked perfectly and I can now install windows on it.