Question Trouble running Windows 10 after install ?

[Karnawgie]

Hope someone is able to help me out with this. I built a pc today as a Christmas gift for someone. This the the second pc I've ever built, and everything in that regard went well. I went to install windows with a USB, as I did with my first computer and ran into an error about the hdd having a mbr partition table. The disk was from a friend and I formatted it. I turned the boot option in bios to legacy only, and got the about 20gb of windows onto the drive. After the windows setup it said it needed to restart. It restarts and then just sits there with the blinking line. If i boot the hdd from bios it does the same, if i boot usb again it restarts install. I turned uefi back on with no change. As my last shot for tonight I went into the bios, tried to convert my disk to gpt but didn't even get my disk selected. So here I am, hoping it's an obvious fix that someone can bless me with.
Incase it helps, the mobo is an Asus a320m-k.

 

[Colif]

ran into an error about the hdd having a mbr partition table. The disk was from a friend and I formatted it. I turned the boot option in bios to legacy only, and got the about 20gb of windows onto the drive.

if you had restarted the install after formatting you wouldn't have got the mbr error
changing bios to legacy might bite you back if you ever use a boot drive bigger than 2tb


As for other problem. Did you change the boot order in the PC to have USB first as you shouldn't. if no drive in PC has windows on it, the boot order should be blank or it will just get stuck installing.

After the windows setup it said it needed to restart. It restarts and then just sits there with the blinking line.

Windows isn't finished installing yet, its only half installed. You haven't made an account yet, right? It isn't even able to boot off the ssd yet as its only after another restart it actually runs off the ssd, its currently running off the usb.

its a fairly common problem.

I wonder if that board has Boot Override. I would look in manual but I can bet it won't show me.
if it does, its either on the Boot menu or Save & Exit.

if it has boot override, remove USB from boot order
put USB in at startup,
go into BIOS
go to boot tab
scroll down to Boot Override
pick usb from list
PC will restart and start the installer. Hopefully on the 1st restart it will continue the installation

 

[Karnawgie]

if you had restarted the install after formatting you wouldn't have got the mbr error
changing bios to legacy might bite you back if you ever use a boot drive bigger than 2tb


As for other problem. Did you change the boot order in the PC to have USB first as you shouldn't. if no drive in PC has windows on it, the boot order should be blank or it will just get stuck installing.

Windows isn't finished installing yet, its only half installed. You haven't made an account yet, right? It isn't even able to boot off the ssd yet as its only after another restart it actually runs off the ssd, its currently running off the usb.

its a fairly common problem.

I wonder if that board has Boot Override. I would look in manual but I can bet it won't show me.
if it does, its either on the Boot menu or Save & Exit.

if it has boot override, remove USB from boot order
put USB in at startup,
go into BIOS
go to boot tab
scroll down to Boot Override
pick usb from list
PC will restart and start the installer. Hopefully on the 1st restart it will continue the installation

Thanks for the response.
So, starting from the beginning. I believe I restarted the install after formatting to find the same issue, then I found the solution of switching to legacy, but I could be wrong. Either way, I don't get the mbr error in legacy. The hdd is 1tb and I don't think it'll ever get upgraded.

I had tried changing the boot order to usb first and hardrive first, same issue both ways. You say "the boot order should be blank" but I'm not sure what that means.

Windows hasn't finished installing, I haven't made an account, that is correct. After the install setup and it auto restarts, it does automatically boot off of the hdd but it's just that blank screen, even after a few minutes. I tried restarting from there, ran bios, and launched hard drive to the same result.

This morning I unplugged the usb
started the pc
plugged usb back in
loaded bios
found a boot override section and selected the usb

It went through the install as normal, restarted, and then same old blank screen upon hard drive boot.

When I started the install it told me other windows installs would be moved to windows.old and there's space taken up, so I think the install is doing what it should.

I don't have a clue what to try next, I feel if i had bought a new ssd or something i wouldn't have had this issue but I'd love to try to get this hd to work.

Also, i don't really know how to multi-quote and organize stuff, atleast i spaced it.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I went to install windows with a USB, as I did with my first computer and ran into an error about the hdd having a mbr partition table.

Perform diskpart clean on drive, you're installing windows to. This cleans all partitioning and all data from it.
Press Shift+F10 to open command prompt during windows install.

 

[Karnawgie]

Perform diskpart clean on drive, you're installing windows to. This cleans all partitioning and all data from it.
Press Shift+F10 to open command prompt during windows install.

I tried this last night and when I selected disk 1 through 3 they were all already empty. I will attempt this again right now.

 

[Karnawgie]

Perform diskpart clean on drive, you're installing windows to. This cleans all partitioning and all data from it.
Press Shift+F10 to open command prompt during windows install.

Yes! it worked. Last night when I ran those commands, list disk, it gave me a big list of commands but this time it actually listed my disks. Disk 0 was my hdd so i cleaned it and converted it to gpt, which was what i was trying to do last night. Took it out of legacy only and ran the newly available partition on the usb and the windows setup started up much much quicker than before and after the restart it is continuing the install process. Thank you man.