Windows 10: Not Booting to Windows 10 Home Edition

Hello all,


I have a Dell Inspiron 3847 desktop. The computer came with Windows 8.1 64 bit Home edition OS. I later downloaded Windows 10 to the computer. I always powered down the computer through the start menu. The computer no longer boots to Windows. There were no known prior issues. The screen just shows "Dell" and does nothing else. I have tried pressing F2 and F12 at startup and the computer is unresponsive. I tried switching the USB port for the keyboard, same result. There are no beebs or error codes during startup. I checked the back of the tower and the power supply has a green LED.


I called Dell tech support and they suggested if I wanted to try and recover or reformat the hard drive myself to use a Windows 8.1 bootable stick/thumb drive since the computer had originally came with Windows 8.1 OS. The Dell tech went on to explain that I could later download Windows 10 without a product code. Another third party website forum suggested to use a Windows 10 bootable stick/thumb drive to try to boot to Windows. Now I'm not sure what to believe.


Since this is the Microsoft website, I thought I would post the problem here for your input. What version bootable drive would you use?

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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

 

windows 10 slow boot

I was having a slow boot issue on my Windows 7 install a little while back. It would take about 30 - 40 extra seconds to boot up for whatever reason.

I would try following these steps, while this didn't solve my issue, it did increase Read/Write to where it should be.

http://www.disk-partition.com/kb/tips-ssd-optimization-windows7-1.html

Looks to be similar to this: https://www.back2gaming.com/focus-story/ssd-optimization-for-windows-10-windows-8-and-8-1/


In the end, I had to reinstall my Windows 7 entirely to fix the booting issue. It was taking around 35 seconds to boot, and after the fresh install it takes about 7 seconds to boot.

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.