well, past week's been rather unfun. Computer died, got the components and is for a new one, and the guide did a great job in terms of assembly. Get to installing the os, however...
what they said basically came down to 'use custom install, let it do its thing, nothing bad will happen'.
So of course, it goes terribly wrong. Starts installing, reboots. OK, that's fine, supposed to do that. 'missuing bootmgr press ctrl alt del to restart'
nothing I found online had a fix outside of either 'go to the start menu', which is kinda hard to do when you don't have windows, or format the hard drive, which I ALSO cannot do since I lack a fucking functional pc to do that from. looks like it's going to be a trip down to the local computer shop to get the guy there to sort it out.
also only one of the case fans is powered because the cables are ridiculously short. so, don't expect much talk from me until this bs is fixed.
Easier (or, cheaper, I suppose) option: Get to a functioning computer you can download on, get a cheap USB disk, and burn a Linux distro onto it (I used Fedora). Plug into malfunctioning computer, turn computer on, and go into the boot menu from the BIOS screen, and get it to boot from the USB disk.
Format hard drive from within Linux environment.
I had similar troubles when I built mine and was installing Windows 7, except it was actually my fault. I pressed the reset button when the driver installation asked me to restart the computer, which resulted in infinite blue screens. Had to scrape everything off the drive and reinstall it all.
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