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Clean Win10 install on New SSD- formatting errors
Hi all,
Operator skill level- medium - its been 4.5 years since my last build, zero experience installing Win8 or Win10
Brand new Clean install from full WIndows 10 USB3.0 retail package
Gigabyte GA-970A-D3P motherboard
AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Vishera
16 Gig G*Skill DDR3 1600 RAM
240 gig SSD Ultra L5 Team Drive SATA III
While installing W10, I get the error message that windows cannot install on GPT partition. This was a brand new unformatted Drive. Windows 10 itself created the GPT partition if there is one there! Tried several times to delete partition and reformat, but it wont let me reformat to NTFS at that point.
I took the SSD out and attached it via USB external SATA drive adapter onto a Win8.1 machine. It shows up on this machine as a NTFS partition! I delete the partition, but it wont let me delete the reserved or system partitions- and I created the partition again and formated it to NTFS.
When I take the SSD back to the new machine to try the install again, I get the same exact error messages all over again.
This SSD drive is going to be the primary OS HD for the system- Once installed there will be a 1Tb disk for files and archive but that is not even attached at the moment.
Any advice on how to properly format this SSD SATAIII drive to allow Win10 to install?