Windows 10 infinite loading

[Siggy]

Just built a computer, downloading Ubuntu hated it then. bought windows 10 on USB, went into bios to get it started up and now the option is 64 or 32 bit. I choose 64 and it shows loading files. It finishes loading the files then flashes the windows logo at me then goes back to the 64 or 32 bit options. Infinite loop, what do I do?
Tried safe mode but does the same thing.

 

[Trouble]

I assume that when you purchased Windows 10 on USB, that the purchase also included a Product Key.
My guess, would be that there is a BIOS setting out of sorts that needs to be addressed.
Do you have Secure Boot enabled? Is the board UEFI or Legacy BIOS?
Did you wipe the drive of any remnants of Linux formatting?
Does the BIOS see the hard disk that you are attempting to install to?

Lets assume that there is a problem with the installation media ( I guess it's possible). You may want to acquire the installation media yourself and attempt the install using another media resource other than the USB that you purchased.
The installation media can be obtained through either of these two resources.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/techbench
OR
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Once you have the ISO, you can use ImgBurn to burn it to a DVD or Rufus to burn it to a USB ThumbDrive, either of which you can use to boot your computer.

 

[Siggy]

I assume that when you purchased Windows 10 on USB, that the purchase also included a Product Key.
My guess, would be that there is a BIOS setting out of sorts that needs to be addressed.
Do you have Secure Boot enabled? Is the board UEFI or Legacy BIOS?
Did you wipe the drive of any remnants of Linux formatting?
Does the BIOS see the hard disk that you are attempting to install to?

Lets assume that there is a problem with the installation media ( I guess it's possible). You may want to acquire the installation media yourself and attempt the install using another media resource other than the USB that you purchased.
The installation media can be obtained through either of these two resources.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/techbench
OR
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Once you have the ISO, you can use ImgBurn to burn it to a DVD or Rufus to burn it to a USB ThumbDrive, either of which you can use to boot your computer.

How do I wipe the Linux formatting?

 

[Siggy]

Also it is UEFI bios

 

[Trouble]

First and most importantly you need to know which drive (if you have more than one) you are working with.
Normally, I recommend only having one drive (the intended OS drive) connected during the process so as not to cause any unintended consequences.
Then on the first screen you see suggesting you pick a language and keyboard layout, hold the shift key and strike the F10 key.
That should produce a command prompt Window.
In the command prompt window type diskpart
hit enter and give it a minute to evoke the diskpart prompt, then type
list disk
hit enter
then type
select disk 0 (where disk 0 zero is the disk you wish to wipe)
hit enter
then type
clean (absolutely critical that you are certain that you are on the correct disk as this will completely wipe the drive / all volume / partition information)
hit enter
then type exit
that's all there is to it.
For UEFI / Secure Boot / GPT configurations I like to use Rufus to construct the boot media from the ISO.
You need to configure it as follows.

http://rufus.akeo.ie/

 

[Siggy]

First and most importantly you need to know which drive (if you have more than one) you are working with.
Normally, I recommend only having one drive (the intended OS drive) connected during the process so as not to cause any unintended consequences.
Then on the first screen you see suggesting you pick a language and keyboard layout, hold the shift key and strike the F10 key.
That should produce a command prompt Window.
In the command prompt window type diskpart
hit enter and give it a minute to evoke the diskpart prompt, then type
list disk
hit enter
then type
select disk 0 (where disk 0 zero is the disk you wish to wipe)
hit enter
then type
clean (absolutely critical that you are certain that you are on the correct disk as this will completely wipe the drive / all volume / partition information)
hit enter
then type exit
that's all there is to it.
For UEFI / Secure Boot / GPT configurations I like to use Rufus to construct the boot media from the ISO.
You need to configure it as follows.

View attachment 2009

http://rufus.akeo.ie/

I can do all this on the Ubuntu software?

 

[Trouble]

I can do all this on the Ubuntu software?

You do the diskpart stuff from the Windows installation media when you boot from it.

 

[Saltgrass]

I haven't used one of the USB versions of the install media. We can assume your system is a x64 version? If you where actually choosing the 32 bit version on a system set to boot UEFI, it may not work.

But if you are booting to the install media, make sure you are not being offered some type of "hit a key" requirement for it to continue booting. It really should not have a problem with the drive until it gets farther along with the install.

If you can't boot any install media, even an earlier OS, to clean your drive then a live Linux install could probably also do this. But if a drive already has partitions on it, the install may not be able to configure it as the install requires.