Im completely lost here. I got a terrible virus and posted on reddit's r/techsupport and they guided me through getting rid of most of it and making my pc operate as good as it used to. But then i would notice my firewall continue to turn off after I seemingly removed everything and windows UAC sent me random notifications to open task manager, so i knew i had to nuke my pc and reinstall windows.
I was running Windows 10 upgraded from 7, and I had upgraded to windows 10 on a different motherboard. It got water damage so I had to put my cpu and parts into a new one and lost my digital entitlement to Win10 and was running an unactivated version. Reinstalling would supposedly also fix this too suggested by microsoft support, so i needed to do it anyway.
I put my Windows 7 disc in while my computer was on and still signed into Windows, then shut down to boot from the disc. i have the Windows 7 home premium box, case, and disc, not OEM(?) copy or anything.
Windows installer comes up normally, but when I get to the 'Where do you want to install windows?' screen, I saw multiple partitions, one being my SSD where i installed windows, another being my separate 1TB HDD , and 2 partitions for each drive. I format my SSD and delete the other partitions hoping that will work and allow me to install, but i get this error message when i try to install to my SSD, where it was installed easily before:
'Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu.'
It had a different error i fixed by using shift f10 diskpart> clean, and just wiping my ssd of the other partitions and making it "unallocated space", but now i have no clue what to do and i swear ive looked at every post everywhere on this issue with no luck. Even disconnected the ethernet 🙁
Hopefully helpful info:
My motherboard is an ASUS z-97a, SSD is a Samsung
MZHPV128HDGM-00000
Rest of my specs here if necessary
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Glitchedd/saved/QHhwrH
My bios has AHCI selected by default and not IDE , Sata, or RAID, so its not that
My ssd is an an M.2 slot and also not showing up under the Sata connection list on my bios, but is in the boot priority list
My boot priority has my SSD first in line, and shows it as UEFI:Samsung
MZHPV128HDGM-00000, under that is my CD/DVD drive. Honestly im not sure if i remember my SSD previously having the UEFI in front of it and am not sure what it means, new builder and unfamiliar with everything. My HDD is disconnected mainly because i want to keep the pics, videos, music on it, but i heard its not good for the install either.
I was running Windows 10 upgraded from 7, and I had upgraded to windows 10 on a different motherboard. It got water damage so I had to put my cpu and parts into a new one and lost my digital entitlement to Win10 and was running an unactivated version. Reinstalling would supposedly also fix this too suggested by microsoft support, so i needed to do it anyway.
I put my Windows 7 disc in while my computer was on and still signed into Windows, then shut down to boot from the disc. i have the Windows 7 home premium box, case, and disc, not OEM(?) copy or anything.
Windows installer comes up normally, but when I get to the 'Where do you want to install windows?' screen, I saw multiple partitions, one being my SSD where i installed windows, another being my separate 1TB HDD , and 2 partitions for each drive. I format my SSD and delete the other partitions hoping that will work and allow me to install, but i get this error message when i try to install to my SSD, where it was installed easily before:
'Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu.'
It had a different error i fixed by using shift f10 diskpart> clean, and just wiping my ssd of the other partitions and making it "unallocated space", but now i have no clue what to do and i swear ive looked at every post everywhere on this issue with no luck. Even disconnected the ethernet 🙁
Hopefully helpful info:
My motherboard is an ASUS z-97a, SSD is a Samsung
MZHPV128HDGM-00000
Rest of my specs here if necessary
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Glitchedd/saved/QHhwrH
My bios has AHCI selected by default and not IDE , Sata, or RAID, so its not that
My ssd is an an M.2 slot and also not showing up under the Sata connection list on my bios, but is in the boot priority list
My boot priority has my SSD first in line, and shows it as UEFI:Samsung
MZHPV128HDGM-00000, under that is my CD/DVD drive. Honestly im not sure if i remember my SSD previously having the UEFI in front of it and am not sure what it means, new builder and unfamiliar with everything. My HDD is disconnected mainly because i want to keep the pics, videos, music on it, but i heard its not good for the install either.
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