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Yes, I read through that link, it was definitely very helpful. And I also read that part, however I was unsure of how to do that. Honestly don't know how to load IRST drivers during/before a custom...

Thank you guys for all the info!

As for there being something unique about my original drive, I'm not sure, the only difference I originally thought they had was that one was 1TB, and the new one...

I had tried those commands before hand (found them when I googled my second error) to no avail. When I try and use either one the cmd prompt says
"The boot configuration data store could not be...

Thanks for the reply!

So I downloaded the recovery tools bootable disk, and tried booting from it, however I'm getting another error now.

Whenever I boot to it it comes up with a blue recovery...

I apologize, my phrasing was kinda poor. I did originally try and create a new partion, yes, however after wiping the HDD using the cmd prompt, I never created a new partition, and I'm still unable...

Thank you both for the quick response.

Unfortunately I've tried deleting all the partitions and creating a new one, and if didn't work.

I also just tried deleting it through the command promt...

So my laptop's HDD recently crapped out on me. Luckily I had a 500gb HDD from my old laptop sitting around, so I figured I'd just use that one and install a new copy of windows 10 on it, however I've...