Windows 10: Windows 10 won't install from USB or DVD. Stalls at flashing cursor and then reboots.

I have a workstation running Dual Intel Xeon 3.4 GHz 64 bit processors Irwindale that I have been trying to install Windows 10 on. I've heard that Irwindale processors under 3.6 GHz are not compatible with Windows 10 however I've also heard of instances of people with Irwindale CPUs under 3.6 Ghz successfully installing Windows 10.


I can't use the Windows media creation tool as I am currently running Windows XP so I've downloaded the ISO for Windows 10 Pro 64 bit.


I first made an installation USB using Rufus and set my bios to boot to the USB with an empty HDD being the only other device connected and it gets past the bootup and then goes to a black screen with a blinking cursor. If I leave it, the monitor will just go into sleep mode but the cursor remains if I wake it up and nothing ever happens. I thought it was a MBR issue so I made a new bootable USB using WinUSB, which installs grub4dos from which the Windows 10 installation can be manually executed, and it boots fine to grub4dos but when I try to run the Windows Installation I get an 0xc000000f "A required device isn't connected or can't be accessed" error.


Yes I have tried different USB ports.


Then I attempted to make a bootable DVD instead using ImgBurn. It burned the ISO fine but fails verification. I'm not sure why...maybe the DVD brand? In any case I can see the files so I changed my BIOS to boot from the DVD.


As before, it gets through the bios bootup sequence and then goes to the blinking cursor only from the DVD it will blink for a few minutes and then reboot and repeate the cycle.


I never get to the Windows 10 installation screen or see an error indicating a system compatibility issue. Just a blinking cursor on a black screen.


I get the same behavior with Windows 10 Pro 32 bit.


Does anyone have any suggestions?

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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

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

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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?

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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?
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