HELP! Windows 10 won't boot after clean install

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I re-installed Windows 10 on my girlfriends pc and now it won't boot, it goes to a recovery screen as shown below:

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I installed Windows via USB with the Windows 10 media creation tool. When I got to the screen when I chose the partition, the SSD which I wanted to install Windows on had a message "windows cannot be installed on this drive" so I clicked format, but it had the same message. So I Googled this as I haven't had this issue before, and found a solution to manually wipe the drive and convert to GPT as below:

  1. Open the diskpart tool:
    diskpart
  2. Identify the drive to reformat:
    list disk
  3. Select the drive, and reformat it:
    select disk <disk number>
    clean
    convert gpt
    exit
  4. Close the command prompt window.
  5. Continue the Windows Setup installation.

    I followed these steps and windows installed normally, then when it went to boot I got the recovery screen.
I have tried several solutions found from googling but nothing has worked:

Select option to repair your system instead of installing.
Go to command prompt (in advanced options) and hit following commands to repair MBR.
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /rebuildbcd
Press [y] when system asks you to accept.
Exit

Running start-up repair didn't work either.

I've tried formatting the drive several times and re-installing windows, same issue every time.

I don't really know what to try next. Any help please? :(
 
If I read your post right you have more than one hard drive attached to this system, i always found that it was best to remove all other drive(s) before doing a clean install. As it sometimes gets confused and install bootsector on other drives and then when you try and bootup it goes to another bootsector that isn't your new install and you get a nice error screen about not being able to start.

So it might be worth trying to do an install again with just the drive you want it installed.

If you only have one drive sorry for wasting your time.
 
Jumping said:
If I read your post right you have more than one hard drive attached to this system, i always found that it was best to remove all other drive(s) before doing a clean install. As it sometimes gets confused and install bootsector on other drives and then when you try and bootup it goes to another bootsector that isn't your new install and you get a nice error screen about not being able to start.

So it might be worth trying to do an install again with just the drive you want it installed.

If you only have one drive sorry for wasting your time.
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Thanks for your reply however I found the solution and it was the stupidest thing ever tbh:

I found this setting in BIOS:

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"Windows 8.1/10 WHQL Support" was set to disabled, so I changed it to enabled, and it worked...

Why would this setting evening exist? And why was it set to disabled? I definitely did not change anything in BIOS before or after installing windows.

I spent 5 hours trying to fix this last night when all the issue was a simple setting in BIOS to enable windows 10???!?!?!
 
Maybe it was a default for your BIOS? Have you checked your battery backup - also check if this setting is retained after the computer is unplugged overnight.
 
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