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Black screen with flashing cursor when installing fresh Win 7/10

  • 30-06-2019 01:38PM
    #1
    vikkthor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭


    Hi

    I have a Dell XPS 17 L702X currently running on Linux Mint. Recently I upgraded the HDD to SSD and wanted to do a fresh install of Win 7 or 10 via USB thumb drive.

    Installations of both went well without any issue but when I had to reboot the machine from the SSD (after removing the USB thumb drive, and setting up properly the booting order on BIOS obviously) I have a black screen with just a flashing led on the top left.

    I thoguth it may have been an issue with Windows 10, so I did I reied with Windows 7 (which was originally running on this machine) and had the same result.

    I tried to create different USB bootable thumb drive with different ISO but I had the same issue.

    I tried to install the OS on another HDD and I have the black screen there also.

    I tried with other Linux distros and I can install any of them work without an problem.

    Help hanyone?

    Thanks
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  • #2
    vikkthor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭vikkthor


    Found the solution: I had to remove the HDD otherwise the booter will install on the HDD instead of the SSD for whatever reason (this seams an issue with Windows OS).


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