Conflicting Disk Reporting

Boot the latest 10 iso you download boot from that with just the 1 disk and during install delete ALL partions windows will create correct paritions if it asks for key just skip it will then activate via MS server

Hello @Trapper,

Did you have other disks attached when you performed a Clean Install ?

 Disconnect ALL Other Disks:

It is highly recommended that you disconnect [ temporarily unplug ] ALL other Disks [ HDD's/SSD's/USB's ] BEFORE installing Windows. The reasons for this are . . .

• You CAN'T accidentally OVERWRITE a connected Disk.
• The BOOTLOADER [ boot configuration files ] will get installed on the correct Disk [ because Windows has the tendency to install the bootloader rather randomly on ANY connected Disk ], and therefore STOP problems with booting once the installation is complete.

Once the installation is complete . . .

• Check that the OS boots correctly.
• Check if the boot order in the BIOS/UEFI settings are correct [ if NOT, adjust accordingly ].
• Reconnect the other Disks.

EXPLANATION:

Windows uses a different partition structure for BIOS/UEFI. During the installation process, Windows asks which Disk / Partition you want to use for the Windows C:\ drive, it does NOT however, necessarily use the same Disk for the other Partitions, and can therefore incorrectly create the hidden recovery partition on ANY attached Disk.

Additionally, for BIOS, if another Disk is left attached, and at a latter stage you remove that Disk, you will find that the OS will NOT boot. If you check the BIOS, you will see that the OS has assigned the AHCI/RAID setting instead of the LEGACY setting and set it up as RAID, therefore breaking the boot process.

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I hope this helps.

Hi All.
Just as I thought it could not get any worse, it did.
The reinstall of W7 today was fine until the end when the PC rebooted and went back to the beginning of installing W7, in other words it installed it twice.

I then inserted my W10 ISO, that continued until it asked for my license number which of course I did not have as W10 was a free upgrade at the time. When I went through this yesterday W10 did not ask for the license number so I assume it accepted my W7 number today it did not.
I then discovered that somewhere along the line my Belkin Network Adapter stopped so no internet. I attempted to reinstall the driver from the Belkin CD but that failed as well.
I really do not know where to go now or what to try. Maybe install an old HDD and see if I can install something on that in case it is the SSD that is causing the problems.

EDIT.
I removed the SSD and replaced it with my W10 HDD, the one that played up at the beginning of this saga. It loaded with all the speed of a tortoise running through mud. But it DID load and open.
Now what?
Order a new HDD and use MR to copy the image across.
Order a new SSD and pray it works this time.
I don't dare turn it off in case it fails again,
And my internet adapter is no working again. Yippee.

WHAT I REALLY need to do is find out why the W10 HDD is so very, very slow. FYI I am using a very old laptop to do this writing.
I will screenshot disk management on the PC and upload it.