Ah well, thank you very much for the help.

Using another HDD I was able to start installing windows but it crashed before it could finish. So I'm guessing that it is likely a motherboard/cpu issue?

I had already formated the ssd as I had resorted to trying a clean install. Everything is backed up already.

I tried with my HDD removed and I had the same problem.

I've been running Memtest86 for about 2 and a half hours and it has found no errors. Is there a way other than using another power supply to...

I just ran chkdsk and it found no errors.

Here are the results from crystal disk:

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CrystalDiskInfo 7.0.2 (C)...

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I upgraded from windows 7 to 10 when it was released and have had no problems with it until now. However when I started up my pc this morning it showed the windows logo and below that said "preparing...