Cannot install Win10 on Samsung 960 M2 drive, on gigabyte z270x-ud5

marcosdipaolo · 17 May 2020

I'm running ubuntu in a samsung 860 and I want to install windows 10 Pro in the M2 drive which is a Samsung 960.

I built the USB with WoeUSB, which is a known tool for ubuntu, using the image i downloaded from the microsoft website.

The process starts and when it comes to choose a hdd, i choose the m2 and it tells me it neither can find a suitable partition, nor create one.

I tried many things, i formatted the drive with NTFS, and created a partition, that didn't work.
Then i tried formatting the drive with NTFS but whitout creating a partition, jst as unallocated space. That worked better since it let me create a partition on the fly, but even then it gives me the same message.

My system is an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz on a Gigabyte z270x-ud5

Tried to insert images of the bios configuration but neither image insertion nor Attachment handeling are working as expected

NavyLCDR · 17 May 2020

How do you format a drive as NTFS without creating a partition? That is impossible to do. Perhaps you might want to follow this tutorial:

Clean Install Windows 10

marcosdipaolo · 17 May 2020

ey NavyLCDR thanks for your answer.

It just worked, i just needed to unplug all other drives. i

You are offcourse right, i made a mistake talking about how i formatted the drive.

Thanks and i'll log back if i hhave any other problem