Background: I have been running Windows 7 for about a year and a half. I upgraded to Windows 8 about 4 months ago. From the time of the upgrade to now I have not added any hardware to the machine.
I am not sure what caused the initial fail of Windows 8 but at some point it refused to boot into the login screen but froze with a black screen. I tried a million things to fix but eventually gave up and went nuclear -- wiping my disk clean and going with a fresh install. At this point my steps for wiping clean are:
Drop into command prompt using the setup disk
Run diskpart
Clean
Create Partition Primary
Active
Format FS = NTFS
Assign
After the above, I run let the setup run. It gets through all the steps but on reboot I get the black screen again (before login).
Not only does Windows 8 fail but when I try to follow the same steps for Window 7 I get the exact same behavior.
Help! I'm on week 2 in this state. Have read a million threads and tried a million different variations and cannot get an install going.
