Issues cloning/reinstalling Win 10

[Dvdmike007]

Hi all,

I took the last few days to closed loop water cool my aging i7 and replace an old dead SSD finally with a new one.
Windows was booting off a standard HDD fine but had issues with speed.
I decided to try and clone the disc to the new ssd but after looking about online saw that a fresh install is best.
I made an installation media from a brand new usb flash drive and started it up.
It kept saying that it had installed but all I got was bootmgr was missing.
I realised this is a MBR issue?
I connected the drive to my usb-sata and popped it into my laptop and cannot find a way to convert it and install Windows.
What am I doing wrong here?
I have a 3820 i7
GTX 1060 gaming X
SanDisk 240gb SSD
And a lot of other older HDD's

 

[sobok27]

Did you format or initialize the new drive? may need to pop it into another computer to use Disk management to do that.

 

[Dvdmike007]

I did format it, more than once now
Windows install says it cannot install to this drive, and that is with all other drives disconnected .
Also my old C drive does not boot now for some reason

 

[SkyNetRising]

Windows install says it cannot install to this drive, and that is with all other drives disconnected.

Clean the drive with diskpart before installing windows onto it.
The issue there is with drive partitioning.
Install in UEFI mode requires storage drive to be partitioned in GPT,
install in legacy/CSM mode requires MBR partitioning.
If you clean the drive before install, it gets partitioned appropriately without any manual partitioning.

 

[Dvdmike007]

Windows install says it cannot install to this drive, and that is with all other drives disconnected.

Clean the drive with diskpart before installing windows onto it.
The issue there is with drive partitioning.
Install in UEFI mode requires storage drive to be partitioned in GPT,
install in legacy/CSM mode requires MBR partitioning.
If you clean the drive before install, it gets partitioned appropriately without any manual partitioning.

Can I do that via the usb thing I have on my laptop

 

[SkyNetRising]

Of course. There are plenty ways to do it.

You can do it also, when booting from windows installation media.

 

[Dvdmike007]

I didn't see an option to do this with the installation media

 

[SkyNetRising]

This is, how you open command prompt, when booted from windows installation media:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2880-open-command-prompt-boot-windows-10-a.html

 

[Dvdmike007]

I tried the prompt but it asked for a password/user combo and I have no idea What it is

 

[SkyNetRising]

Just press Shift+F10 , when you're on this screen. It opens Command prompt also.

 

[Dvdmike007]

I get that bit, but to access the command prompt it asks for a password that isn't the one on my Microsoft account

 

[SkyNetRising]

Then you're doing something different than in that instruction.
1. Boot from windows installation media until you get windows setup window
2. Press Shift+F10

That's it. Command prompt opens (no passwords required). Now you can execute diskpart commands.

 

[Dvdmike007]

Huh, that's odd.
I will try it when I get home from work, thanks for the help thus far

 

[Dvdmike007]

Finally got it working! Thanks for all the help