Windows 10: New SSD - partition query and non-response/freezing problems

Excellent. Its well worth doing and hopefully Windows will pick up all the required drivers. When the install is complete, just wait a few minutes before diving in. You will probably find it asks for a restart to finalise driver installations.

I take a different view here (hope this doesn't confuse the issue for Mike).

To not set a reasonable partition size right at the start means that you can end up in the situation we had a few days ago where someone clean installed and was then unable to shrink the partition down by as much as they wanted. This is because any files created by the installation are classed as 'unmovable' and if they happen to be way out on the disk then that position sets the limits on how small you can come back down to.

I set a size of just 20Gb initially, and once W10 is installed you should find the whole installation is only around 10Gb from memory. Then expand and create your partitions as desired.

Post #6 here shows the idea:
Impossible to clean install win 10 from usb or Iso on formatted drive Solved - Windows 10 Forums

 

@Mooly,

So I did some testing. I will state that it appeared that as long as all the partition manipulations were done on the screen after selecting the Custom Install option that lists drives and partitions, that if the user uses that screen to create a smaller partition to install Windows 10 to, the result is the same partition order as if the user installed Windows 10 to a completely unallocated drive.

If the user does want a separate partition for data, then creating the smaller partition first is a very viable way to do it. The only thing the user wants to make sure of is that they have the OS partition size set for the size they want before they create their data partition later behind it.

If the user wants to create a data partition after they have installed Windows and the OS partition is filling up the remainder of the drive - MiniTool Partition Wizard Free, and numerous other partitioning programs, will shrink the OS partition and move the "unmovable" files out of the way to do so. But doing it your way does eliminate the need for third party programs which was what I was mostly "complaining" about in my previous posts .

However, if the user does not want a data partition, then I don't see any reason to create the smaller partition for Windows first.

 

Two of us agree here. I also prefer to go with simple rather than complicated, especially when it comes to those who may not be quite so literate when it comes to PC's. In this case simple works best and leaves the complications of unnecessary procedures for the more advanced individual.

Start with the simple, move from there.