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trying to install Win 10 after earlier installation failed
Had Windows 10 working on a dual-boot disk with PCLOS. Something happened to Win 10 and it would not connect to
the Ethernet anymore. Tried several times to "reset" it, finally gave up. Looked at disk with GParted and whole partition was empty! The original Win 10 was an upgrade from W7 thru W8 thru W8.1. There was no boot partition. After a lot of messing around, decided to create a boot partition (sda1) of 100MB (using GParted) , set a boot flag on it, the made an sda2 partion following that, and, because of the Linux partitions later in the disk, made a smaller partition after sda2 which GParted calls sda4. Formatted sda1,2,4 to ntfs. Booted system on disk made from iso download and told it to install from scratch, not trying to save anything (since GParted said there was nothing on the partition anyway). Inserted the Windows key code from the old win 10, without complaint. The install went thru all (most?) of the normal things, like asing if I want to make the LAN accessible, asking my name and a password, etc. For a while there was a panel with Cortina on it, now there is a panel with just 6 little icons on it, there is no mouse cursor, the screen shows a big windows with light rays streaming from it, and after a while it wall time out to a black screen. Should I just remove the disk and power down for a restart, or what? I would have thought that the thing would tell me to remove the disk and restart, but it doesn't.