Question Installing windows on emmc

[zainulhaq125]

I have a lenovo flex 5 chromebook that has PCIe Gen 3x4 slot, and this slot has 64GB eMMC stick installed to it. I want to install windows on to this laptop, i bypassed all the write protection that chromebooks has and got into boot menu and then booted with windows 10 setup from a uefi windows bootable usb. But during setup the drive selection menu doesn't show any drives to install windows and show this error "we couldn't find any drives. to get a storage driver click load driver". I tried to install vmd driver irst driver nothing works. Also I checked the Diskpart shows that this emmc drive is Removable type.
So my question is does windows 10 support emmc?can i install windows on it? If yes, how?And as this emmc attached to pcie 3x4 port so if i replace emmc with nvme ssd, will be i able to install windows on ssd easily then?

Your help will be appreciated.

 

[USAFRet]

eMMC is just another drive.
I have an Asus Transformer with a 64GB eMMC drive, Win 10 Pro.

I suspect the issue is the Lenovo BIOS, and its relation to the original Chromebook system.

 

[zainulhaq125]

eMMC is just another drive.
I have an Asus Transformer with a 64GB eMMC drive, Win 10 Pro.

I suspect the issue is the Lenovo BIOS, and its relation to the original Chromebook system.

But diskpart showing it as removable not partition

 

[zainulhaq125]

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But diskpart showing it as removable not partition

And i listened, the windows can't be installed on removable?

 

[USAFRet]

But diskpart showing it as removable not partition

Not sure what you mean by that.

Please show us what you're looking at.

 

[zainulhaq125]

Not sure what you mean by that.

Please show us what you're looking at.

Image 1 Setup drive page
Image 2 Diskpart

 

[zainulhaq125]

Image 1 Setup drive page
Image 2 Diskpart

Volume 1 with letter D is the eMMC, which show that it is removable type
Other volumes are flash drive

 

[USAFRet]

And I would put that down to the Chromebook BIOS.

Yes, a Windows install will not see a "removable" drive as a viable place to install to.

 

[zainulhaq125]

And I would put that down to the Chromebook BIOS.

Yes, a Windows install will not see a "removable" drive as a viable place to install to.

I'm going to give it a try after installing nvme ssd, let's see if it also recognize it as removable drive.

 

[dwd999]

I'm going to give it a try after installing nvme ssd, let's see if it also recognize it as removable drive.

Note when preparing your drive that the windows installer works best when the drive has a GPT identifier. Its also easiest if all of the drive space is totally unallocated so that the installer doesn't have to delete any pre-existing partitions.

 

[TassieDevil]

Volume 1 with letter D is the eMMC, which show that it is removable type
Other volumes are flash drive

I have come across this blank drive screen before when installing Windows 10 on laptops.
It turns out that some laptops will not allow installation from a USB3 port.
Try installing from a USB2 port and see if that helps.