Windows 10: Hard disk problem? Windows 10 does not boot on HDD or USB

My friend's computer recently had an issue where Windows 10 would not boot. He said the last thing he did before this issue occurred was installing "ElectraX," a program I didn't recognize. When the issue occurred, the loading screen with the HP logo and the rotating circles loading icon would show, but then the screen would turn black and nothing more would happen, that is if it actually loaded. After a few boots it would attempt to boot in Automatic Repair mode, but the same issue would occur, where it would get stuck on a black screen.

I then tried to recover Windows 10 by using a USB flash drive Windows 10 installation medium. However, it also did not boot on this computer, as it showed the loading screen then a black screen, yet when I ran it on my computer, the purple screen where you start the Windows 10 installation process appeared. I verified that it was in fact loading from the USB by ejecting it from my friend's computer when it was loading, which resulted in a blank blue screen appearing. Yet, when I did it after the loading icon appeared, the loading process continued and then went into the black screen. This seems inconsistent with the other results.

After a while, I guessed that something might be wrong with the hard drive. To try and diagnose the issue, I used a USB flash drive with Parted Magic to check for S.M.A.R.T. data on the hard drive. The hard drive reports itself to be a 500 GB 5400 RPM mechanical drive. Apparently, the hard drive had over 5000 errors recorded. In addition, some clusters were labeled as bad and their locations had to be changed, suggesting hard drive damage.

Something that further suggests hard drive issues is that when I boot into Fatdog64 to inspect the hard disk partitions, there was a one minute delay for the partitions to be mounted, which is abnormally and extremely long as it normally takes about 5 seconds to do on my own computers. I tried to back up data on the hard drive to an external hard drive but were only able to back up some of the data as I accidentally unplugged the drive during the backup process.

The issue is still occurring, and I need advice on where to go next to try and repair the system. Please give your thoughts on what I should do. Thank you.

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Windows 10 USB boot

Hi there, am not a windows 10 expert. I have a pc in the bedroom on windows 10, I messed up the bootloader trying to fix the xp on that system.

System wont boot, trying to repair via win 10 usb installer.

Downloaded the media creation tool to install windows 10 installer on usb stick. Not compatible with a host of usb sticks I have. Tried the usb sticks that others use, but I think they use rufus; as the media creation tool by win 10 does not detect the usb stick.

So quick question, the win10 machine i am trying to repair the bootloader is a win7 upgraded to win10.
If i were to use the usb win10 installer to "repair installation" does the version of the iso downloaded via the media creation tool matter?

There is three options:
Windows 10
Windows 10 Home
Windows 10 N

Also is there a step by step instead of using rufus as I want to try an alternative method of creating a usb win 10 installer. Preferably with more compatibility.

System is a asus sabertooth 990 (r2?) with AMD phenom X 6.

Also is there any other software I can load onto the usb that can repair the bootloader easily?
That would be the ideal alternative. Thanks

 

Cant boot system, says 'Invalid partition table', also cant access advanced boot options?! HELP!

there are 2 boot order lists in most bioses now.
1st you have

Cdorm
hdd
lan
usb floppy
etc

then if you search you will find a second

which has
Hdd 1
hdd 2
usb

the 1st one tells the bios which type of drive to try and boot from 1st.
the second tell it which hard disk to boot from 1st.
a usb drive these days gets detected as a hard disk so its in the second list.

so you set the 1st list to HDD 1st bot
and the second list you set to usb drive as the 1st hard disk.

 

Installing windows off of a USB stick

Step By Step from vista:
From admin cmd prompt

1. diskpart
1a. list disk
2. select disk 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

Copy Windows Vista's DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (d being your vista cd and e being your usb stick)

And that's it, boot off your usb disk