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simon14

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#177350 30-Jul-2015 18:20
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Hi all,

Yesterday i upgraded my Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 and everything went smoothly.

I then decided it was a good time to clean up my hard drive and install a clean version of Windows 10.

I went to Recovery and selected to remove all files and reinstall Windows.

After about 30 minutes i came back in to check how things were going and now the PC is stuck in a loop. 

When the PC starts up, a screen appears saying:


"Your PC has run into a problem and needs to restart.

We'll restart it for you."


It then provides an error " Inaccessible_Boot_Device " and proceeds to restart.

It will do this over and over again.


Any idea how I can fix this?


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simon14

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  #1355833 31-Jul-2015 11:04
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THINK I FOUND A RESOLUTION!!!

Going back to trying to install Windows again, when i clicked on "Custom. install Windows only (advanced)." as my post above, i got an error when selecting a partition saying: "Windows cannot be installed on drive X partition  X".


I found a forum post advising to do the following from: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1948092/windows-installed-drive-partition.html

"at the screen where it ask you to choose which drive to install Windows on, press Shift+F10 and a DOS window should open

type: diskpart
type: list disk (you should see only Disk0)
type: sel disk 0
type: clean

close the DOS window

click on Refresh, select the disk that is listed, and click Next"

This got me past this hurdle and now Windows is installing..... will update later.


I only hope this can help someone else suffering a similar issue!

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