Question How will I install Win10 to SSD drive ?

[ogretmen63ank]

I have MSI GE60 PC Apache laptop. I can see the 128GB SSD drive in the BIOS menu, but when I want to format it with win 10 I only see the 1TB hard disk drive in the windows installation menu. I can't see the ssd drive and cannot install win 10 to the ssd drive. I tried installing the SSD driver during Win installation, but it didn't work. What should I do? Thanks in advance.

 

[Ralston18]

First the 128 GB SSD is too small. You should use at least a 256 GB SSD or better.

Installation - start with the following post from within this Forum.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/how-to-do-clean-installation-windows-10,36160.html

 

[popatim]

On the Where to install Screen, click the Drive Options link at the lower left and your drive should be listed on the next screen if it's working.
Windows won't show you drives that it thinks contain an OS as places to install to;; you have to make it show you all the options.

 

[ogretmen63ank]

Dear friends, the computer came with originally installed 128GB SSD. It has the operating system installed already. Everything was fine with the laptop, but the disks were garbage. So I want to format the both SSD and the other HD. Before I did the formating I erased the partitions with the win 10 installation menu. After that I couldn't see the SSD during the installation menu. I can see the SSD in the BIOS menu, but when it comes to win installation I can't see it. Also when I install the win to the HD I see the SSD in the "disk management" part of the Windows, but nowhere else. I reinstalled the SSD. I opened the back cover take the SSD out and then put it back. That didn’t work. I take the HD out and try to format the SSD by this way, it didn’t work either. MSI international help service couldn’t solve the problem either. Their final solution was asking me to send the machine to a local technical service. I know that they will not find a solution either. The only thing I didn’t try is finding a M2 slot machine, format my SSD with it then reinstall it to my laptop. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a laptop with M2 slot in the area where I live. That is the whole story, do you have any other solutions for he problem. Thanks.