Windows 10: New hard drive, Win10 ISO won't complete installation

Discus and support New hard drive, Win10 ISO won't complete installation in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; Five year old Dell XPS 8900 desktop with OEM Win10. I immediately added a 240 GB SanDisk SSD as my (C:/) Windows drive and put (most) all my data on... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by BIC, Oct 11, 2020.

  1. BIC
    BIC Win User

    New hard drive, Win10 ISO won't complete installation


    Five year old Dell XPS 8900 desktop with OEM Win10. I immediately added a 240 GB SanDisk SSD as my (C:/) Windows drive and put (most) all my data on the OEM 1TB Seagate HDD (D:/ drive). Turns out there's a small bit of data I'd like to recover from old C drive, but nothing urgent now.

    Windows died. I tried various tools suggested here with minimal success (I did get Ubundu to work in some capacity, but not well enough). Ran over to Best Buy today and got a PNY 120GB SSD for $19.

    Replaced SSD and used the official Microsoft Win10 ISO on a thumb drive. Seems to install OK until the part where it says "Windows needs to restart to continue." After restarting, seems to want to begin install again. I tried both pulling thumb drive and leaving thumb drive. No difference, won't continue install. I am in Legacy Boot with the PNY at the top of the boot list. Says "selected boot device failed." Please see attached screenshots. Says max 5 images, I'll add more in another post. Thanks.

    :)
     
  2. Tim B285 Win User

    Win10 on new hard drive, how to activate

    • Installed Win10 to new hard drive, but Win7 code does not work.
    • Tried online (slui.exe 4) activation:
      • entered numeric codes online - which failed,
      • talked to 1st line tech who entered Win7 code - did not work,
      • transferred me to 2nd line tech and no one came on the phone line after 2.5 hours.

    Win7 was pre-installed on HP computer with no media provided and HP support has no process to supply replacement media or ISO (last HP purchase). Tried to install Win7 to new drive using Recovery Disks I created, but it could not find system image.

    Not willing to return to old hard drive as the new one has SSD and is at least 3 (7?) times faster.

    QUESTION 1: Is my only option now to buy either Win7 or Win10?

    QUESTION 2: Without activation, when will Win10 no longer boot? If 12 months, I can retry online activation later.
     
    Tim B285, Oct 11, 2020
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  3. Win10 empty hard drive

    My hard drive which had win10 died. Since it was an out of warranty dell and I don't seem to have any install disks fr win 8, I was trying to make an iso on a flash drive to install on the new drive. However, EVERY time I use the win10 media tool I get
    that 08XXXX error. It will download, just not create the usb drive key.

    Any suggestion?
     
    Matthew770, Oct 11, 2020
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  4. New hard drive, Win10 ISO won't complete installation

    Problems installing new hard drive

    Hello,

    I suggest you to follow the steps provided below and check if it helps.


    Hope this helps. Keep us posted on the status for further assistance.
     
    Eeshwar Kumar, Oct 11, 2020
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