[SOLVED] Windows 10 Recovery: install won't boot on new partition

[Grunky]

I have a 5 year old laptop.

I was dual booting both ubuntu and windows but decided to delete ubuntu partition. The machine failed to boot so I tried to re-install windows using a bootable USB drive. I used the option of saving the old files in a separate sub directory of the new windows installation.

The problem is the machine still fails to boot - I tried deleting extra partitions and rebuilding the boot record but nothing is working.

At this point I deleted everything but the partition containing the new windows installation and my old files - can someone write step-by-step what I should do to get this working?

I don't mind wiping the whole drive after I remove my files but I can't reformat until then .

 

[onespeedbiker]

Follow the instructions in this link https://forums.tomshardware.com/faq/how-to-do-a-clean-installation-of-windows-10.3170366/

 

[Grunky]

Follow the instructions in this link https://forums.tomshardware.com/faq/how-to-do-a-clean-installation-of-windows-10.3170366/

This says to delete the partition, I can't do that as I have data I need to keep and can't get to currently. I have extra space and would be happy to install on another partition though, or re-install windows ontop of this partition.

 

[onespeedbiker]

You may want to use the info in this to link to rescue your data https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...nt-start/862c143f-9239-4e63-8968-635e8ba9efd6