Windows 10: New WIN 10 Install on new SAMSUNG EVO 250GB SSD

This is just what is says. A fresh win 10 install on a new SSD. Do not explain to me about cloning.

To date I've upgraded the BIOS (UEFI) on a ASUS P67 Performance Gen3 motherboard. I've changed the SATA Mode to AHCI. I can see the drive in the BIOS.

The Windows installer the page where it lists the drive partitions. I only see one drive partio

Drive 0 Partition 1 239.9GB 232.8 GB Primary

I get the error
Windows can't be installed on drive 0 particion 1. (Show Detailes)

The New button is greyed out and when I select next I get

We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information, see the Setup log files.

Thoughts?

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Windows 10 Anniversary update for 32GB eMMC budget laptops?

I have a NUC with i5 processor Bought with 2G Ram and 32G emmc. I had no problem with upgrading to 128G and 4G. I copied the installed emmc using a usb reader to a





Samsung 250GB 960 Evo M.2 SSD

and samsungs proprietory program to copy installed emmc to samsung then swapped in new hdd no worries afert that

Perhaps ditching your 32G emmc is an answer?

 

Do I have to reinstall Windows 10 after changing SSD?

Hello everyone,

I have a custom built PC, but I had someone else assemble it for me and he put in the wrong SSD (I have a 250GB SSD for the OS and anything that wants to be with the OS, and a 2TB HDD for everything else). I asked for a Samsung 850 Evo but he put in a 750
Evo, now I would have to remove the 750 Evo from my PC, and give it to him and he will give me the 850 Evo.

My question is as follows: Since my OS is stored in the old SSD, will I be able to reinstall Windows 10 on the new SSD without a problem? or could it think that it is a different PC and therefore will not allow me to install Windows 10 as it is a one-time
installation only?

Thank you in advance for your help.

 

Hello hiltonr92 and welcome to the forums. See if this will help https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1...n-install.html

Are you installed in UEFI Mode? If so, when you boot from the USB drive use the entry that says UEFI and the name of your USB. If not in UEFI, boot from the name of your USB without UEFI in front of it. Delete all partitions on the drive until it says unallocated and then click the 'NEW" button. The installer will create all the necessary partitions. I hope that helps.

 

If the existing partition on the drive is 100% the capacity of the drive, then Windows setup has no place to create an EFI System partition to boot from.

 

When you get into the installer, you have the option of deleting the existing disk layout and starting over. As a corollary to NavyLCDR's preceding item, this will give the installer the room it needs to create the disk layout that will include the EFI partition and possibly also a recovery partition as well. Thus, for example, here's what my disk layout looks like on my production PC, just recently created for a clean install of Windows 10 on a new SSD as well:



The 47.69 GB unallocated at the far right reflects my use of Samsung Magician to overprovision the drive (This gives it room to grab unused sectors in the future, as current sectors exceed the recommended write limit, or show themselves to be defective.)
HTH,
--Ed--

 

Looking at the disk image, I find my Samsung Evo to be partitioned differently. From left to right, I show: C, the (Boot, Page File, etc.) main partition; a 450MB Recovery Partition, then my overprovisioned unallocated space.

I have no 100MB partition.
I have the "main" partition (my C drive) to the far left, rather than after the recovery partitions.

Does any of that matter?

Ken

 

It can matter quite a bit but isn't necessarily a problem. The disk partitions Ed shows reflect a GPT disk scheme, booting UEFI. Yours is most likely an MBR disk scheme and you are booting Legacy, not UEFI.

Kenn *Smile

 

If the SSD is empty, and there's nothing on it, then just choose the 'Custom' installation option during the install and that will offer you the various partition and formatting tools. Delete any and all the partitions on the drive. Then select the drive (now without any partitions) as where you want to install Windows 10 and everything will proceed without any problems. Windows 10 will create and format the partitions it needs and then install. After it's finished you can always use the Windows 10 Disk Management tool to shrink the primary partition to make room for any other partitions you might want to create on the same SSD.