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after win 7/10 dual boot setup, computer now bricked?
I have a 3 1/2 year old HP business desktop with windows 7 pro on it. I finally bit the bullet today and decided to dual boot with win 10 pro. It went without a hitch. I created a 40gb partition on the hard drive and installed it to that. On initial boot up of win 10, then i was messing around with it, checking it out. after an hour or so, then i wanted back on win 7, so i restarted it. Upon restart, the monitor remains on standby and right after the dvd drive activates, then there's nothing. The hard drive activity light goes off completely and the only light still on is the power light on the front. After about 30 seconds to a minute,then the tower fan decides to start to ramp up until it sounds like a jet engine. I have seriously never heard it get that loud. I didn't think it was possible for a case fan to get that loud and fast. I immediately panicked and did a hard shut down (held down power button). I tried it a few more times and still does the same thing. I am lost at this point.
If I access the hard drive through an external hard drive enclosure on another computer and remove the partition that has win 10 on it, will that make the hard drive back to how it was before i even messed with it for win 10? Does anyone know what could have happened or what I could do? Please please don't tell me that i'll have to re format back to like new .