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Question

Windows 10 Installation going haywire

Feb 26, 2018 2:27PM PST

I wiped and reloaded a computer. It had windows 10 before the wipe. After I wiped and reloaded windows 10, it booted to the desktop, then it crashed. A blue screen popped up and this code came up: 0xc0000185.

I looked it up and it is apparently a driver issue. Well, this is a fresh install of Windows 10, so why is there driver issues right off the bat? Can anyone help with this?

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Tell how you wiped and reloaded this PC.
Feb 26, 2018 2:31PM PST

Did you do anything with partitions?
Dafydd.

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Reload process
Feb 27, 2018 6:27PM PST

I have windows 10 on a bootable flashdrive. I plugged the drive into one of the usb drives on the computer, turned it on, and booted to the flash drive. I then loaded up Windows 10 (64 bit) and, since it had a "used" drive, I deleted all partitions, and then created new ones. I did not create them manually, I let the drive create them to fit the windows install (system, recovery, etc.) after it had downloaded files and finished with updates, it crashed saying the error above. I read online that it was a driver issue.

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What do you mean by
Feb 27, 2018 6:36PM PST

"let the drive create them"? If you wrote "I let Windows setup the partitions" I would not be asking.

If you did let the Windows installer do this, then it looks like hardware issues.

Or you have a "Signature PC" which you can't use the off the shelf Windows 10.

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To the first question, yes.
Feb 26, 2018 2:52PM PST

Windows, even 10 only comes with basic drivers so it's easy to crash if we try a game or something before we get drivers up to date. BUT we can't use Microsoft's Update Driver button. Still, today, we do this the old fashioned way. There can be a need for a current BIOS as well.

Help? Given only this detail no one can guess why it did this.