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OK, I screwed the pooch. Booting to a black screen
I have a Acer Veriton VN4620G. Basically an i5 Revo. I haven't used it in a while and wanted to reinstall Windows 10. Before doing so I noticed there were maybe 15 partitions in the only drive C:\. I have dealt with that before successfully (with your help) so, I went ahead and identified the boot and the erecovery partitions. I left them alone and decided to extend the boot partition to absorb all the other unallocated memory using the mini tool partition wizard. All went well until the tool stated the computer had to be rebooted. Now it boots to a black screen.
So, that apparently wasn't enough stupidity for a day. I figured, what the heck why not just try doing a clean install with the MS media creation tool. I was able to boot from the USB. Ran in to several difficulties there. It would not allow me to use the boot partition. I deleted and formatted that partition and it still will not let me install Windows using this tool. I think it was regarding the MBR or GPT file structure. Something like that. I simply did not understand the problem.
I can access the UEFI / Bios. However I still boot to a black screen. From what I have gotten I need to somehow prepared the hdd structure before it will let me install Windows.
Can someone keep me from chucking this thing in the dumpster?