Can't install Win 8 to brand new SSD as my main drive

[blackm0th]

Help please!

Situation: I'm trying to install Win 8 on a brand new ssd.
To set up the ssd the directions included say "from the home menu screen go to... blah blah blah."
I can't do that since I dont have an operating system installed, and it wont let me install
windows from the install disc unless I set the drive up first. I'm stuck.

Secondary situation: I also have a second internal drive with win 7 on it (currenty unplugged)
that I want to put in this pc, but I want to keep all my files on it, and am not sure how to
get it to win 8 but also keep my files on it after I figure out the first situation.

- Turns on pc
- "Insert proper boot media"
- insert the Win 8 install disk
- Click Install
- Enter product key and accept tos
- "Which type of installation do you want?" Offers upgrade from other version of windows and
custom install. No os is installed, so I click custom.
- "Where do you want to install?" No drivers found
- Click Load Drivers
- Says to insert device driver for my drive and click ok.
- Only have one disk drive, so I would have to eject Win 8 install disk. Do it since theres
no other option available.
- Inserted ssd driver disc and clicked ok as instructed.
- "No signed device drivers were found. Make sure that the installation media contains the correct
drivers, and then click OK"
- Its the correct disc, and the one provided with the Samsung ssd.
- I've hit a dead end.

- Go back to main install screen
- Click reset pc
- "Unable to reset your PC. A required drive partition is missing."

- Reboot PC with Samsung ssd disc in drive
- "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a
key" ...

 

[bailojustin]

is it a samsung NVME?

 

[bailojustin]

put in the windows 8 diusk, turn on computer, click install, click repair computer bottom left
open command prompt
type
diskpart
list disk
select disk X "X being the SSD"
create partition primary
format fs=ntfs label=system quick
assign letter D

Now install,

if its nvme, you have to have the NVME driver off the site on a usb, When installing go to load driver, then browse, navigate to your NVME driver, click it, this will install the NVME, now you can see the driver and repeat step 1.
assign l;e

 

[blackm0th]

is it a samsung NVME?

Its a Samsung SSD 850 EVO

 

[blackm0th]

put in the windows 8 diusk, turn on computer, click install, click repair computer bottom left
open command prompt
type
diskpart
list disk
select disk X "X being the SSD"
create partition primary
format fs=ntfs label=system quick
assign letter D

Now install,

if its nvme, you have to have the NVME driver off the site on a usb, When installing go to load driver, then browse, navigate to your NVME driver, click it, this will install the NVME, now you can see the driver and repeat step 1.
assign l;e

Noob question, but how do you open command prompt from there?

 

[bailojustin]

Boot to the install screen, press SHIFT + F10 to access the command prompt.