This worked! I swapped the USB disk into a different USB 2.0 port and.... success! The pc finally recognised the USB and I now have Windows 10 installed and up and running again.

Thanks to all who...

No the pc wont boot up to the USB drive at all - what I have done is gone into the motherboard Setup and changed the first boot up to "USB drive" but when I save the settings and the pc restarts,...

I managed to change the Boot Option Priorities to 1st Boot from the USB which contains the Bootable Windows 10 installation media on it, but when I restart it comes up with "Reboot and select proper...

When I power it up, an MSI Mainboard logo appears on the screen...when I looked at the motherboard physically, all I could see was "MS 7698 Ver 1.0"

I dont know what SteamOS means, and I am...

No thats my problem - when I start up the pc I cant get it to start up using the USB stick... I can get into the setup menu (by hitting the delete key) but see my previous post which describes what I...

I was trying to format the pc to clean off all data before selling the pc.

I dont have the Windows cd for this nor any product key...

Does this mean I cant use the USB to get around the problem?

I am unsure what my pc make is...could have been a custom made as it doesnt have a name badge.
Anyway, I have found the Boot Overide option in the setup utility, it displays the following:

Boot...

I attempted to format a Win 10 pc but it stopped formatting (came up with a Windows failure to complete message) about half way through and now the pc wont boot up?
I can get into the motherboard...

All good, it worked fine and I now have my 1Tb space back! Thanks for your help!

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Thanks for your help, I had a back up of the important files so fortunately I didnt need...

Thanks guys! Have downloaded Recuva to try before deleting the 32gb partition - Recuva deep scan revealed a lot of data was unrecoverable but the unrecoverable stuff were strange unrecognizable file...

Thanks guys, and sorry about my lack of detail!

I attempted to "Create Windows 10 installation media" from the Microsoft site, to install Windows 10 on a different pc that stopped booting up. I...

I downloaded a Windows boot image onto my 1Tb external hard drive, but now my drive only appears in file manager as a 32gb external drive.

Disk Manager shows my external drive (ESD-USB - "G") as...