Windows 10: Windows 10 boots with a black screen and command prompt after installing on a new SSD drive

Hey.


My PC is currently running on a windows 7 OS. It has an SSD for windows + HDDfor data drives which are currently in use.


I have purchased and added 2 additional SSD hard drives and added them to my PC they are initialized, allocated and visible on my win7.

I wish to dual boot the pc, so i'll have win10 on the 1st new SSD drive and its data on the 2nd new SSD drive. I want to be able to choose which OS to run after every pc restrat.


Here are the steps I've taken:


1. I've successfully downloaded and made a boot-able USB stick with win10 using the windows tool.

2. I have loaded my PC in boot mode, and booted up with my USB stick.

3. I converted my MBR to GPT using the cmd and installed wind10 on the new SSD drive. Then waited for the installation to finish.

4. The installation was done, and the pc restarted.

5. After the restart, my PC booted up with the old Win7 it didn't offer a choice of the two. I've changed to boot order to boot my new SSD drive the one with the win10 installed to boot first and restarted the pc.

6. The pc booted with my new SSD drive but the only thing I see is a black screen with a command prompt. Nothing else.


What am I missing?

How should I do it else?


Thanks,

Shay.

:)

 

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...

1. Windows logo on a black screen
2. circling dots appear beneath the logo
3. light blue 'Please wait' screen with circling dots
4. a command prompt window (very briefly)
5. 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

 

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?

 

cant install windows 8 on my cruciall ssd drive

Yeah, that was going to be my next suggestion. You can actually access the command prompt from inside the Windows installer, then run DiskPart and do a Clean command on the drive.