Windows 10: Deleted All Partitions on Both SSD’s and my HDD. Can’t Get To Windows Install Screen From...

Discus and support Deleted All Partitions on Both SSD’s and my HDD. Can’t Get To Windows Install Screen From... in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; As the title says, i deleted all partitions on all 3 of my drives because my pc was having issues so i thought i would do a super fresh reset of the PC... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by salvationmayne, Jul 15, 2020.

  1. Deleted All Partitions on Both SSD’s and my HDD. Can’t Get To Windows Install Screen From...


    As the title says, i deleted all partitions on all 3 of my drives because my pc was having issues so i thought i would do a super fresh reset of the PC delete everything and reinstall windows. However, after deleting all the partitions, I can not boot from my windows 10 ISO flash drive. I can see it when I try and boot from it in the BIOS but then i get a screen that says “Reboot and select proper boot device, or insert boot media and press any key”. I can not for the life of me avoid this screen or know what to do to just boot from the flash drive. I can see my 1TB HDD and 500gb SSD in the BIOS but it is not recognizing the 256gb SSD that windows and the mb chipset drivers were previously installed on anymore. I think this has something to do with it. I tried removing the SSD but i can not find it in my PC, im pretty sure it came installed in or already on my mb. I have an MSI B450M Bazooka V2 board if that helps. I just need to reinstall windows on any of these drives. Am i dumb and this an easy fix, or is it something way more complicated. I used to repair PC’s every day at my old job but this one has me stumped. Just seeing if its an easy fix before i take out one of the drives and put it in another PC to load windows on it. Helppp please

    :)
     
    salvationmayne, Jul 15, 2020
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  2. HLL_544 Win User

    Saving free space on SSD (Regarding multiple obligatory partitions on main drive)

    Gerry Here just copy-paste some irrelevant response.

    Well, **I've figured it out**. Here my solution (I Take no responsibility from any damage that might arise from this process, and I do not guarantee it to work for u.)

    We'll assume u have 2 disks; SSD and HDD.

    Also NOTE: I Work in a GPT-Disk partitioning scheme, I don't know if it's applicable on dos-style MBR partitioning.

    General-methodology wich we are going to work with (or TL;DR).

    • Delete all partitions on all drive
    • Install Windows on the HDD Drive
    • Install Windows on the SSD Drive (yes, twice!)
    • Repartition the HDD to free up and reallocate as we wish (The only parition that HAVE to be there is the EUFI System (Fat) )
    • After freeing up HDD space, move user folder to the HDD
    • PROFIT
    And in more detail:

    THIS GUIDE ASSUME THIS IS A FRESH PC - THAT U DO NOT HAVE ANYTHING U NEED ON EITHER DISKS.

    * - Asterisk, not a real step, just additional information

    • Boot into windows 10 installation
    • Clear ALL partitions on BOTH drives
    • Let windows install itself onto the HDD, We'll call this installation win-hdd
      • There is no need to actually boot into this OS.
    • Boot into windows 10 installation
    • Let windows install itself onto the SSD. We'll call this installation win-ssd
      • *What would happen now, Is that windows detects the recovery and eufi partitions and does not need to create such additional partitions on your ssd. It would only create a 16MB windows reserved partition.
      • *Your boot partition would be hdd/eufi; But since windows detect it's own bootloader it would allow you to duel-boot between win-hdd and win-ssd(default)
    • Optional: During windows-ssd first run wizard switch to audit mode (CTRL+SHIFT+F3)
      • *We would use audit mode to:
        • * Optional1: Repartition hdd
        • * Optional2: Change "Users" folder to the hdd.
        • * If u do not want to move Users folder, u can do 6.2 After win-ssd fully boots instead
      • Repartition hdd & move Users folder:
        • Using a 3rd party tool such as "MiniTool Partition Wizard" you can do the fallowing *as you wish*:
          • Delete win-hdd partition
          • Delete recovery-hdd partition
          • Delete windows reserved (16 mb) partition.
          • You can also later move the EUFI to the start of the hdd disk, if needed
          • Create new partition (free to use) on hdd.
          • Make sure to properly assign drive letters to all drive as u wish
          • Fallow
            this guide
            to relocate the User folder (Starting from Step 2)
    • Boot into windows-ssd; If u do not know which one (int the OS selection screen) It's safe to assume that the automatically-selected one is the win-ssd.
    • If u have not performed 6.2 Yet, this is the time to do that now.
    GLHF.
     
    HLL_544, Jul 15, 2020
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  3. W1zzard Win User
    W7 Hard drive partition issue

    to get rid of that 100 meg windows partition that setup creates for you on a new install on a blank hdd:

    - press shift+f10 when on the partition management screen in setup <-- this opens a command prompt
    - diskpart <-- start the windows command line partition management tool
    - list disk <--- list the installed hdds in this computer for the next step
    - select disk 0 <- might have to replace 0 with the number of the correct disk
    - clean <-- this will erase all data on the disk you selected one step up- dont use the wrong disk!
    - create partition primary <- creates a primary partition taking up all space on the drive, adjust the command if necessary
    - exit, exit to exit diskpart and the command prompt
    - click refresh in partition manager and select your newly created partition and install to that
     
    W1zzard, Jul 15, 2020
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  4. Deleted All Partitions on Both SSD’s and my HDD. Can’t Get To Windows Install Screen From...

    EFI Partition on both SSD and HDD; can I safely delete the one in HDD

    When I installed Windows 10 on the SSD, I didn't remove the HDD (it's on an Acer Aspire E5-475G laptop and it was difficult to physically remove it). So I created a new EFI Partition on the SSD.

    Now I have an EFI partition in both my HDD and my SSD.


    Deleted All Partitions on Both SSD’s and my HDD. Can’t Get To Windows Install Screen From... [​IMG]


    So I was wondering if it was safe to delete the EFI partition on the HDD.
     
    gralsean16, Jul 15, 2020
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