I have two identical Dell Inspiron 3455 systems here. One has a failing hard disk and the other runs fine. I removed the 1TB failing disk in one machine and installed a Crucial 500 gig SSD and inserted a bootable Windows 10 reinstallation USB. When I rebooted the computer and selected the USB as the boot device, it simply sits there with a black screen and does nothing. I left it for over an hour and still nothing.
Next, I tried a Windows 10 DVD made from the Microsoft Media Creation Tool. It gets to "Press any key to boot from DVD", I press a key and it just sits there and goes no further. Both the USB and DVD installers are known good as I have used them both successfully just recently. However, just to be sure, I made new ones of both using the Microsoft Media Creation Tool again. Still, no change.
The behavior is identical for both machines.
I reinstalled the hard disks to both machines and ran a successful installation Windows 10 installation on both, even on the failing disk.
The common denominators here are the two machines which are identical and the single SSD. I don't have another SSD at present to try but it does have a previous OS still installed so I but it back into its source machine and Windows 10 runs fine.
I'm stumped.
Next, I tried a Windows 10 DVD made from the Microsoft Media Creation Tool. It gets to "Press any key to boot from DVD", I press a key and it just sits there and goes no further. Both the USB and DVD installers are known good as I have used them both successfully just recently. However, just to be sure, I made new ones of both using the Microsoft Media Creation Tool again. Still, no change.
The behavior is identical for both machines.
I reinstalled the hard disks to both machines and ran a successful installation Windows 10 installation on both, even on the failing disk.
The common denominators here are the two machines which are identical and the single SSD. I don't have another SSD at present to try but it does have a previous OS still installed so I but it back into its source machine and Windows 10 runs fine.
I'm stumped.