Computer Says "No" : Won't Install Windows on Evo 1TB.

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Hello,

I've had no problems installing Windows on other solid state drives, but when I attempt to do so with this one I get this message :

Windows cannot be installed to disk 0 partition 1.


When I click to find more details about this, I see this information :

Windows cannot be installed to disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's bios menu.


My first thoughts were that it was a dud.

What do you suggest? TIA. :)


Edit : woops, might have to get this moved to storage.
 
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any other pc to try it in? just so you can format it ready for windows install?

latest mb bios? enabled hotswap in the bios that the ssd is connected to,might be worth a try
 
wazza300 said:
any other pc to try it in? just so you can format it ready for windows install?
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Afraid not.


wazza300 said:
latest mb bios?
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I've just thought of that myself. It was a bit of a pain to get my previous graphics card to work, and that required a bios update, too. Everything has settled down since then, but I'll take a look in case I'm running the oldest one (somehow).


wazza300 said:
enabled hotswap in the bios that the ssd is connected to,might be worth a try
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I don't know what that is / haven't used it before. :)
 
Well, it turns out I'm running F22 which is the second to most recent, but I thought I'd update to 23b anyway, which is the latest. When attempting to use Q-flash it simply said 'Incorrect File Size'. I'm off to check which version my mobo is; I could have sworn it's 1.0.

Edit : It is 1.0, so why the problem with the file size?

Edit 2 : Tried updating the bios again, no joy. I went and had another go at what hyperseven suggested, but it didn't work. Tried formatting the disk; nothing much seems to happen.
 
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hyperseven said:
have you played with the uefi settings, disabled csm, loaded optimised bios defaults?
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Not yet, that will be my next course of action. I don't know what CSM is? Edit : clear cmos?

Btw, something strange occurred. I took a look inside the machine, and noticed that for some reason my other (working drive) was connected to a SATA 2.0 port, not the 3.0 one. Anyway, from there I had yet another go at trying to make what you suggested work, and this time it sort of did. :confused:

This is a little difficult to explain, so please bear with me. Once into the beginning of the set up process, I noticed (rightly or wrongly, I don't know) that where you select to install the drive only had one choice : drive 0. Now, in the past I'm sure when I've bought a new drive, there will be two entries in that box; one like I mentioned e.g. 9XXgb, and another partition but with a much smaller value, e.g. 100mb. I appreciate that you wouldn't install Windows to the smaller one, but the fact that only one 'address' was there made me wonder if it was knackered. That aside, eventually pressing this and that worked, but I've no idea how or why.

So, Windows installed, but after updating one or two things (usual Gigabyte mobo drivers), I was prompted to restart the pc. Unfortunately, the drive isn't showing up in the boot priority settings, and after that express recovery started doing its thing, followed by an error message.
 
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Getting rather confused now.

I went into the bios again and tried load optimized defaults, and up it showed in the boot priority list! I must admit that I never thought to try that as I haven't had to use if before. Anyway, booted into Windows fine. Thought I was home and dry, when the screen / updates it was downloading froze. Restarted the machine, and up came the message 'No bootable partition in table'. So, I entered the bios again and this time F7 (optimized defaults) wouldn't work.

Powered the pc down. Swapped drives over. Booting took longer than normal, so once again into the bios. In the boot priority nothing was there apart from 'disable' & my cd-rom drive. Tried optimized defaults...nothing. Powered the machine down, and swapped back to the SATA 2.0 port. Works fine (old drive). I'll try the new ssd in a mo.
 
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Seems to be sorted. Works with SATA 2.0 ports, but not 3.0.

Very much 'round the houses', but somehow I got there. I think.


Thanks to those that chipped in. :)
 
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opethdisciple said:
If the drive works in a Sata 2 port but not 3, it's RMA time.
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If that's the case, then the finger probably points towards the motherboard? Bios aside, I can't see two + drives not working on Sata 3.0 being anything other than a faulty port on the mobo. Anyhow, it's much too late as I bought the motherboard in 2012. Sata 3 sits right under the video card, is hard to reach and has never worked properly from when I first tried it (whenever that was). It could also well be something in the bios that I haven't set up right / at all.


opethdisciple said:
Have you tried gparted?
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It's now changed to MBR, so before I did that it must have been GPT?
 
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