alrighty here goes nothing, please explain everything to me like i'm 5. i have a massive headache trying to work with this for the past couple of hours and i really hope i'm doing something basic incorrectly.
i'm working with the following:
a msi b450 tomahawk max motherboard
a 250gb sandisk 2.5in ssd
a 500gb western digital m.2 ssd
my goal is to switch my boot drive from my 250gb 2.5 inch ssd to my new m.2 ssd. i'm fine with a fresh install of windows on the m.2, at this point i just want it to boot.
originally, i had tried to clone my 250gb to my 500gb, but that didn't seem to work. so i retrieved a flash drive with a copy of windows on it, so i could do a fresh install. every time i've tried to accomplish this, i've completely unplugged my 250gb ssd.
i've followed a few different tutorials online and no matter what i keep getting the error message that it "couldn't create a new partition or locate an old one" or "windows cannot be installed here". if somehow i've been lucky enough to avoid one of those error messages, windows will then "install" but i'll get stuck in an infinite loop of it trying to install, restarting my pc, then starting all over again.
i have no clue where to go from here, i feel like every tutorial i have found has been identical and not useful for my problem. any help is greatly appreciated, thank you!
i'm working with the following:
a msi b450 tomahawk max motherboard
a 250gb sandisk 2.5in ssd
a 500gb western digital m.2 ssd
my goal is to switch my boot drive from my 250gb 2.5 inch ssd to my new m.2 ssd. i'm fine with a fresh install of windows on the m.2, at this point i just want it to boot.
originally, i had tried to clone my 250gb to my 500gb, but that didn't seem to work. so i retrieved a flash drive with a copy of windows on it, so i could do a fresh install. every time i've tried to accomplish this, i've completely unplugged my 250gb ssd.
i've followed a few different tutorials online and no matter what i keep getting the error message that it "couldn't create a new partition or locate an old one" or "windows cannot be installed here". if somehow i've been lucky enough to avoid one of those error messages, windows will then "install" but i'll get stuck in an infinite loop of it trying to install, restarting my pc, then starting all over again.
i have no clue where to go from here, i feel like every tutorial i have found has been identical and not useful for my problem. any help is greatly appreciated, thank you!