Can't install windows on GPT drive problem. (SSD SATA and NVMe)

No that`s just how many partitions UEFI creates.

You should just let the Media Creation Tool create your USB Installer.

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I format my OS drive NTFS, I use Partition Wizard to create 1 NTFS partition, Align it, and mark it Active.

I install windows on 1 partition on 1 entire SSD, I don`t do UEFI on my OS drive. My storage drives are GPT.

Ya you really don`t need to create partitions if you don`t want to, as long as you keep your Data sorted.

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He broke the cardinal rule "Always unplug any/all other drives before installing windows"

As stated here.

mystvearn said:

For some reason I had to also diskpart and clean the SATA SSD as well. Now when both are unallocated disk, I just proceeded to install and it works. I noticed there were 4 partitions on the SATA SSD. 3 were like system reserve or something. Maybe the partitions had something to do with permitting installation on the NVMe.

That`s not what he was doing, he was installing W10 on a M.2 and going about it the hard way.

After he said "Now to reimage" I was like what ?

All that and you are gonna reimage anyway.