Hello, recently my HDD with my Kali installation on it decided to die so now I have my new HDD, I went to install Kali Linux.
I followed my usual process of created a bootable USB/CD and booting from it to install. However, this time I was unable to do that. I created a bootable USB but when I went to boot from it, the screen stayed black, After about 20 minutes, I rebooted back into Windows and checked the ISO making sure it wasn't corrupt. That is when I noticed the ISO contains different files to the ISO I used to have.
I saw a 'setup.exe' file on the USB drive so I tried running that and it came up with the Debian-Installer. I followed the process until I had to reboot. After rebooting I chose the boot option to continue installation. The screen stayed black for about a minute then a screen popped up saying "Windows failed to start". According to that screen, the g2ldr.mbr file is missing or corrupt. I have checked it the file is present on the HDD in the root of the C drive along with the other win32 files created by the installer.
I have tried many different solutions but none have worked. I have tried disabling secure boot and enabling legacy mode but it displays the exact same error. I also tried the same ISO on my other PC and it worked fine so I know the error is with my PC. I saw that it could be the Windows Boot Record thing so I used a Windows 10 (the OS I have) disc to fix the MBR and things but the same errors appears when trying to install Kali.
I don't know what else to try because I have never seen a Kali Linux ISO that contains these files before... They have always contained EFI/BOOT files but they seem to be gone now?
Is there a new process required to install?
EDIT: I managed to get this to boot from USB but after the installation, I saw my HDD had been partitioned how it needed to be but no files were written to the drive...
Originally Posted by JoshG456
