Excellent, thanks again.

One more thing, I'm now in BIOS mode 'Legacy' instead of UEFI. Is that something that's going to cause me headaches?

Thanks

Thanks for all your suggestions and time, I really appreciate it. I have a fresh installation going now and all seems to be fine, so fingers crossed I've dodged a bullet on this one.

I have disabled secure boot, and dismantled everything down to one stick of RAM, one HDD, and booted. This time I have SUCCEEDED in installing a fresh windows. I'm after reinstalling the RAM and...

Yeah, I'm getting this across multiple hard drives, plugged into different SATA ports, all formatted and without partitions.

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Thanks for the advice. I tried this, same...

Hi Freebooter, thanks for the advice, I already did this. Used Computer Management on my laptop to delete any partitions and reformat in NTFS, still getting the same error code.

First - If that is not the case (that the system cannot even boot from the flash media) then I would start not by cloning your original drive, but by trying to perform a clean install on the other...

Thanks for the advice, I opened the notepad, navigated to the folder and... it wasn't there. Folder was empty. I have since tried a completely fresh install as I have everything backed up anyway so...

Thanks for the feedback guys, I tried again and got a much much faster failure notice saying failed to find boot device. I'm going to try and put back in the old SSD in case there was some issue with...

Yeah so the warning came up directly before the windows loading screen. It was a red box on the black screen immediately following the ASUS loading screen. It said something about unauthorized...

Thanks for your reply, but as I mentioned in the post, I tried a completely fresh install and almost the exact same thing happened.

Hi, I've had a really frustrating day trying to get my computer back up and running but I have very little technical knowledge to help me.

I built the computer myself 4 years ago and it has been...

Hi, I've had a really frustrating day trying to get my computer back up and running but I have very little technical knowledge to help me.

I built the computer myself 4 years ago and it has been...