Recent content by tbsarchitect

I need a beer. Be back later.

Wish someone from Microsoft would happen to look at this thread and sort this issue out. I just finished grad school and do not have money to light on fire repurchasing windows again, need to pay off my loans

Yeah Holdum, I ended up just reformatting my SSD and did a clean install. So all apps gone :(

This is some b.s. Got off the phone with a lady from India, tried to explain what happened, came down to the fact that if I can't locate my Windows 7 Product key back from who knows when, I have to pay another hundred or so for a brand new license. This is ridiculous.(I have been running genuine...

Big Bear, I didn't do an online install. I used a usb drive with Windows Media Tool, and also, I did unplug any uneccessary drives.

Yea thanks everyone. I ended up saying just wiping it, I figure I have messed with it too much and would cause potential problems down the road even if I did get it working. Not looking forward spending multiple hours on the phone with windows customer service trying to get my windows to read as...

Ahhhhh have a good night holdum. I am just having the worst luck. I doubled back over all the suggestions and nothing is working. Finally I tried to just use the Windows Media Creation USB install, acted like it was going to work then, went it went to reboot it would revert back to the same...

There's a line that says EFI CD/DVD Boot Option, and it is on [Auto]

choose*

I am about ready to chose that option. I am an idiot and can't figure out where to find the boot method.

If I do that holdum, won't it completely wipe anything I had on there? I did have two partitions, an ssd that had my windows, and a larger standard drive for everything else, however, I did have numerous programs and files that had been saved to my ssd..

is there some command line sequence I can use to easily find out the boot method?

When the computer started up, I hit the hotkey for BIOS Setup, I looked through all the tabs and can't seem to find either of those listed. I will keep looking here.. Thanks again for your help. I've never had to deal with this kind of problem before.