Windows 10: Transfer only the OS (W10) to a different drive

Having a little trouble here - just got the SSD, disconnected all other drives and hooked the SSD onto SATA 0, then booted to a recent W10 install disk (downloaded the latest about 10 days ago).

Regardless of if I set a partition (the entire disk) and format it or not I still get the following error:

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

Anyone know what's going on? The board is a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P if that info helps-

Edit: After trying one idea after another (and finding out that if I do not have a USB drive plugged into a specific port, the selection to boot from CDROM will not work??? - Kind of confirmed my thoughts of dealing with an antiquated BIOS), I finally tried switching boot order to first the CDROM and the "Hard Drive" second. Got me by that problem, but I am rather dubious at this point as I noted the date on my bios was 2009, and further, why should it all work right now?

I was about to reconnect the other drives and see if there was an upgrade to my BIOS, something I do with extreme caution as I feel it is just inviting Murphy's Law to slap me around some more, but as this seems to be moving forward...

Oh, and btw, when I got the SSD my first thought was "Are you kidding??? This thing is supposed to be a 500GB drive?"

 

Yep 2TB is the same size and with M.2 PCIe there even smaller about the width of a RAM Stick and half as long. Storage has come a very long way in the last few years

 

What do you mean, the size of the SSD ? A SSD is 2.75 x 4 inches.

There should nothing on the drive but unallocated space.

Clean Install Windows 10 Windows 10 Tutorials

 

I think he possibly meant when he unboxed it, the small size of the SSD and it being 500GB. I know my first SSD I was like this can't be right lol.

 

Ya, I'm sure that`s what he means *Smile

Happy Happy Joy Joy *Party

He`d probly have a heart attack if he got a M.2 *Shock

But I (at 1st) thought he meant that it's not actually 500GB in windows.

 

The danged thing looks more like a credit card than a drive! I once bought a brand new 80MB drive (just a while after the $300 30MB drive). I don't recall how much I paid for that thing, but, and I don't know how old y'all are or how far you go back with computers, it was what was called a "double high". This was because it took up two normal drive bays because it was so large...

Anyway, I want to once again thank everyone out there for helping me. For the time being, all is stable, the new drive is running great, and I even successfully allowed a W10 update to run (Feature update to Windows 10, version 1803), and it actually finished!!! (Well, this morning when it first tried it was stuck at 0% so after an hour I chose to reboot, turn UAC on and set my firewall to be a little flexible, then it installed.)

 

*Ditto

 

Yes, my first storage drive was a cassette tape predates floppy my first computer was an Adam the OS was CP, my programs were typed in out of computer magazines.
These SSD's are the biggest thing that has happened with computers in a very long time. Storage has been the bottleneck since the Pentium CPU. To be more significant even than Mult core processors
And when you step up to an M.2 PCIe SSD it is just amazing to have storage that reads at 3000 Mbs and reads at 2000+ Mbs writes.
Some people are still using SATA hard Drive that max out at 130 MBS on bench test and only 40Mbs in real work. Far cry from that original Cassette tape, floppies, and IDE hard drive.

 

OK, Commodore 64 ($750 +/-) and when I started working with it and found no internal storage I was real mad. Went out and bought one of their single sided 5.25" 180kb drives, but my friends would hook up a VCR instead... I paid for a NEC chip to upgrade my first IBM true blue from 2.6Mhz to 2.9Mhz (or thereabouts, my personal memory is a bit dull) and bought an add on card, and populated it with chips, to go from 64k of RAM to 1Mb RAM. First modem was a real modem running at 300bps and watched as lines would populate my monochrome monitor one at a time. I'm sure you recall those days also! Ahhhh, the good old days... *Smile

Yes, I should be tech savvy, and I was up until the early 2000's, but courtesy of some financial disasters and other factors, I have fallen wayyyyyyy behind.

So tell me, what the heck is this M.2 PCIe SSD you write of?

 

SSD 960 PRO M.2 512GB Memory & Storage - MZ-V6P512BW | Samsung US

SSD 960 EVO M.2 250GB Memory & Storage - MZ-V6E250BW | Samsung US

Think of it as memory, but it`s non-volatile, meaning the data stays on it until you delete it.

What is Non-Volatile Memory (NVM)? - Definition from Techopedia

M.2 - Wikipedia

Understanding M.2, the interface that will speed up your next SSD | Ars Technica

The fastest SSD for gaming, and one big problem.. - YouTube

M.2 As Fast As Possible - YouTube

 

And then there are these, but they are quite expensive.

Intel Optane SSD 900P - Newegg.com

Mini PCIe, PCI-E, Half Mini PCIe, AIC, ExpressCard, Internal SSDs, SSDs, Components - Newegg.com

 

The 960 Pro in the first link has faster read/write MBps than the expensive Intel optane pci ssd lol.

 

From the looks of those, I am guessing it would also mean upgrading the motherboard, and if I'm doing that, upgrading the CPU, and if I'm doing that, upgrading the RAM... ?

 

If you do not have a M.2 on your motherboard, yes. I don't have one either. And yes, most likely new motherboard leads to new everything except video card and power supply. Not always but I would say most of the time.