Good morning. Discouraging start to a Saturday here...
The Windows 10 Media Creation Tool install routine on my USB thumb drive (in a USB 2.0 slot) cannot find any drives on my PC. The sad story is below:
My 2-yr-old 840 EVO died. It was my OS drive. I had successfully upgraded my OS to Win 10 several months ago.
I bought an 850 EVO on Amazon to replace it. It came with the SSD and a CD. There were no other components, like a USB adapter or cable.
Using my wife's surface pro 3, I downloaded the Windows Media Creation tool and installed it on a USB drive.
Back to my PC, I uninstalled my 2TB data drive and installed the 850 EVO. Turned on the PC and waited until the UEFI screen, then inserted the USB and shutdown the PC. I restarted the PC and the Windows 10 install routine came up.
Moving through the screens, when it came time to pick the install location, it could not find any drives and told me to load drivers. There were no drivers on the USB, but I had the Samsung SSD CD, so I popped that in. The install routine could not find a signed driver in any folder on the CD.
Back to the Surface Pro 3, and I went to the Samsung site to download the driver (with the silly notion that I could put the driver on the USB and get Windows installed.)
You know by now that I found no driver files to download for the 850 EVO, only Magician. I installed Magician on the USB and tried again. The Windows install routine still cannot find a signed driver in any folder. So I'm stuck.
I can't find a thread addressing a fresh install on a new unbootable SSD, so I must be searching incorrectly, or I graduated from the "School for the Galactically Stupid" and am missing some obvious step here.
I apologize for my apparent need for hand-holding, and thanks in advance for any assistance....
The Windows 10 Media Creation Tool install routine on my USB thumb drive (in a USB 2.0 slot) cannot find any drives on my PC. The sad story is below:
My 2-yr-old 840 EVO died. It was my OS drive. I had successfully upgraded my OS to Win 10 several months ago.
I bought an 850 EVO on Amazon to replace it. It came with the SSD and a CD. There were no other components, like a USB adapter or cable.
Using my wife's surface pro 3, I downloaded the Windows Media Creation tool and installed it on a USB drive.
Back to my PC, I uninstalled my 2TB data drive and installed the 850 EVO. Turned on the PC and waited until the UEFI screen, then inserted the USB and shutdown the PC. I restarted the PC and the Windows 10 install routine came up.
Moving through the screens, when it came time to pick the install location, it could not find any drives and told me to load drivers. There were no drivers on the USB, but I had the Samsung SSD CD, so I popped that in. The install routine could not find a signed driver in any folder on the CD.
Back to the Surface Pro 3, and I went to the Samsung site to download the driver (with the silly notion that I could put the driver on the USB and get Windows installed.)
You know by now that I found no driver files to download for the 850 EVO, only Magician. I installed Magician on the USB and tried again. The Windows install routine still cannot find a signed driver in any folder. So I'm stuck.
I can't find a thread addressing a fresh install on a new unbootable SSD, so I must be searching incorrectly, or I graduated from the "School for the Galactically Stupid" and am missing some obvious step here.
I apologize for my apparent need for hand-holding, and thanks in advance for any assistance....