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Having a bit of a nightmare tonight.
Bought a 120GB Sandisk X110 from here the other week on offer and only finally found time/inclination to do a fresh install tonight.
Downloaded W7 64 Pro iso and checked SHA1.
Made bootable USB (kingston Hyper X 32GB)
Disconnected HDD and connected SSD
Set bios to optimized defaults (apart from ignore cpu fan speed as wont boot)
off we go...
First problem was "setup was unable to create a new system partition"
I tried all the usual things Diskpart, List disk, select disk = 0, clean, etc...
Nothing.
Left it plugged in and reconnected my HDD and booted into windows and formatted SSD in disk management and created new volume (D).
Tried disconnecting HDD and installing again got the same "setup was unable to create..." message.
Had a look around on t'web and found people seem to be having trouble installing windows using a Kingston USB stick.
Seems totally ridiculous to me and decided as it's now 23:11 that I will save it for another day.
Hard to believe I started this faffing around at around 8pm.
What am I doing wrong ?
I have now created a bootable USB on a different drive after reading about the issues some folk had with the Kingston drives but not tried it yet - will hopefully get time over next couple of days.
Bought a 120GB Sandisk X110 from here the other week on offer and only finally found time/inclination to do a fresh install tonight.
Downloaded W7 64 Pro iso and checked SHA1.
Made bootable USB (kingston Hyper X 32GB)
Disconnected HDD and connected SSD
Set bios to optimized defaults (apart from ignore cpu fan speed as wont boot)
off we go...
First problem was "setup was unable to create a new system partition"
I tried all the usual things Diskpart, List disk, select disk = 0, clean, etc...
Nothing.
Left it plugged in and reconnected my HDD and booted into windows and formatted SSD in disk management and created new volume (D).
Tried disconnecting HDD and installing again got the same "setup was unable to create..." message.
Had a look around on t'web and found people seem to be having trouble installing windows using a Kingston USB stick.
Seems totally ridiculous to me and decided as it's now 23:11 that I will save it for another day.
Hard to believe I started this faffing around at around 8pm.
What am I doing wrong ?
I have now created a bootable USB on a different drive after reading about the issues some folk had with the Kingston drives but not tried it yet - will hopefully get time over next couple of days.