Question Can’t Install because of faulty hard drive

[Risputin]

Hi, yesterday I bought a new graphics card and found out this morning it messed up my SSD and no longer works (which is another problem), but when I double click to install I get an invalid drive message, obviously I can’t uninstall it from that drive because I no longer have access to it so how can I install to a different location now? Please and thank you for your time.

 

[USAFRet]

Hi, yesterday I bought a new graphics card and found out this morning it messed up my SSD and no longer works (which is another problem), but when I double click to install I get an invalid drive message, obviously I can’t uninstall it from that drive because I no longer have access to it so how can I install to a different location now? Please and thank you for your time.

Give us a FULL list of all the parts involved.

But if you have a dead/dying drive, remove it.

Drivers almost invariably get installed to the OS drive. Folly to try to install them elsewhere.

 

[Risputin]

Give us a FULL list of all the parts involved.

But if you have a dead/dying drive, remove it.

Drivers almost invariably get installed to the OS drive. Folly to try to install them elsewhere.

The only two parts involved is I want to install on C: drive but my M.2 SSD doesn’t work now (which is drive E. I’m going to remove it right now and post back to let you know if that worked. Thank you!

 

[Risputin]

Give us a FULL list of all the parts involved.

But if you have a dead/dying drive, remove it.

Drivers almost invariably get installed to the OS drive. Folly to try to install them elsewhere.

Removed the SSD but now it only goes to the BIOS menu and when I close it, it just opens back up, I can’t leave it

 

[USAFRet]

And what drive is the OS installed on?

Hard giving advice without details.

 

[Risputin]

And what drive is the OS installed on?

Hard giving advice without details.

Sorry, the OS is on C:
The PC will boot up when I put E: (SSD) back in

 

[Risputin]

Also the Bios recognizes the E: (SSD) but that’s the only thing that recognizes it.

 

[USAFRet]

Sorry, the OS is on C:
The PC will boot up when I put E: (SSD) back in

Does this ever actually boot up?

If so, please show us a screencap of the running Disk Management window.

 

[Risputin]

Never mind. I can’t upload from phone. Im just going to take it into a repair shop. Sorry to take up your time 🥺

 

[steveb1976]

it sounds like your boot drive is the m.2 ssd,
thy changing the sata cable for your normal drive (not the m.2 drive) to a different port. as some ports get disabled when using m.2 drives.

 

[USAFRet]

it sounds like your boot drive is the m.2 ssd,
thy changing the sata cable for your normal drive (not the m.2 drive) to a different port. as some ports get disabled when using m.2 drives.

Almost 3 months later, I hope he's already gotten this fixed.