Windows 10: Failed Harddrive, says booted using installation media so cd wont work

A while ago I fried my Alienware 17 hard drive due to it getting stuck in a repair loop and I turned it off to many times. After that I tried to clean and restart my HP Envy laptop, but as it was loading in factory settings, the computer overheated and broke that hard drive as well, but this one is recoverable. The HP hard drive will boot into auto repair as opposed to the Alienware hard drive which is not even recognized as connected to the computer. Because I have not used my Alienware in almost a year now, I bought a windows 10 recovery disk and put the HP hard drive into the Alienware. When I previously attempted to recover the Alienware hard drive ( which wasn't being recognized), I looked online and followed tips which never actually recovered anything. After that, I had messed with the booting operations and I dont know how to put it back to normal first of all. When I boot up the Alienware with the HP hard drive, it first diagnoses, attempts to repair, and always fails. I waited until it had failed to repair, selected advanced options, and chose recovery with a CD. Although the windows 10 recovery disk, I'm assuming it could still work to simply install windows 10 and fix the hard drive from crashing on the 8.1 OS. However, when the computer boots the recovery disk, the installation application says the computer was booting using the Windows installation media, even when the disk was not in the computer. The prompt says to boot windows normally, but i cannot boot windows at all because the hard drive is broken. I haven't tried booting in safe mode yet but I am assuming i cannot boot in safe mode because the hard drive is broken. Please help!

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Installation media boots to command prompt

I've just booted from known working install media to see exactly what it does when booting. The sequence of events is...

• Windows logo on a black screen
• circling dots appear beneath the logo
• light blue 'Please wait' screen with circling dots
• a command prompt window (very briefly)
• the initial Setup page appears

Do you see steps 1-3? If so, it appears you have stopped at step 4, suggesting that something on the disc cannot be read.

Does the disc boot properly in another machine? If so, try cleaning the laptop's drive lens then try booting from the disc again.

If not, make new install media with Microsoft's Media Creation Tool, either as a bootable USB, on an ISO that you can burn to another disc. At Step 8 in Option One of this tutorial you can choose between making a USB or an ISO.

Download Windows 10 ISO File

 

Windows 7 wont install drivers

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If you having an issue installing a driver that worked before you formatted or wont install on a fresh build, sometimes this means hardware damage

 

Installation media boots to command prompt

I do not believe its a keyboard malfunction because same thing happens with usb keyboard. Is that what you mean by external? I tried installing using an external optical drive also but get the same results.

I created a windows 10 x64 installer via microsoft media creation tool. I have used 2 different drives that i know be in working order. I also created a dvd installer via media creation tool as well..

When i boot to the DVD i see the circles. i didnt notice windows logo but above the circles had the HP logo. before that i get the boot to cd/dvd option.

When installing via the usb installer since i have both x32 and x64 on it i choose the x64 option and then i see the spinning circles but boots to command prompt after that. i dont see anything before that.

I know all my installers are good. I even tried to boot to an official windows 8.1 disc and the same thing happens..


I have reset bios to default. I made sure the secure boot is turned on. I guess i could try turning it off to allow legacy but i know for a fact i do not need to do that with these installers. but i could try. any other thoughts?