I disconnevted the hard drive and plugged in an external SSD along with the usb drive with the windows installation media on it. It immediately booted off the usb drive as it should. Seems like the...

Thanks for the quick reply!

I installed the windows 10 installation media on an 8gb usb Drive. I was able to boot with it via a laptop I have available, so I believe the usb Drive is bootable.
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Last night when attempting to boot my desktop I got a BSOD with the following stop code:

Page fault in nonpaged area
What failed: Ntfs.sys

I have attempted to boot into safe mode. During the...