![]() ![]() ![]() If it works and he likes it, great! If not, I'll spend more time trying to work out why Windows wasn't installing. So I said I’d try installing a Linux distribution on there and if it works, I’ll install steam and he can come over to log in and try it out. ![]() But I explained that Steam was available for Linux and that even though not all of the Games will run natively in Linux, many Windows games will run via steam-play. Initially he was concerned about being able to play his games in Steam. Bizarre! So I called him and explained the situation and asked if he’d like me to install Linux on there instead. It still wouldn’t boot and run the Windows 10 installer. I went back into the UEFI/BIOS settings, ensured everything was set up correctly, to allow the windows 10 installer to boot. But when I tried to boot to it, I just got a black screen and a flashing cursor. I called the nephew, to see if he had anything he wanted to backup on his data drive, he said "No", so I went ahead to install Windows 10 on the PC.īut when I tried to boot the gaming PC from the windows installation media - it completely failed to boot. I checked it booted on my laptop, which it did. The PC didn’t have a DVD drive, so against my personal preferences and ethics, I downloaded a windows 10 installation. The nephew said he would like windows on there, if possible. It originally had Windows 7 on it, but the hardware specs support running Windows 10 AND 11. But he had a secondary data-drive on it, which appeared undamaged. No data was salvageable from it - I'm guessing the heads had smashed into the surface of the disk when the power cut happened. When restarted, it went into a boot loop, where it would go through the POST and attempted to boot to C:/, it could see that the C:/ was damaged and would attempt to repair it for a few seconds, before rebooting again and starting a loop that went on forever.īooting my Kali USB on it, to do some diagnostics on it, I could see that his original C:/ with his windows 7 install was basically completely screwed. This weekend, I was tasked with fixing my girlfriends, nephews mid-level gaming PC that had died when a power cut hit, during an update. ![]()
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