I used Media Creation Tool
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I was excited - because this worked and the installer was running. Until it hit 20% and crashed with "Your device ran into a problem and needs to restart"
It then rebooted and ran chkdsk on the Windows 10 volume and came up with a ton of file errors.
Your drive may be failing. It may need to be replaced.
If you can still boot into Windows 7 download either Crystal Disk Info or DiskGenius, both in my signature. View the SMART information about your Disk, if it is anything less than Good, the Disk needs to be replaced
When available update the progress with the steps in post #3.
(disk management and diskpar info share links)
This link has two log collectors: V2 and DM
BSOD - Posting Instructions
For Windows 7 run the DM log collector > post a share link into this thread
Well, yes, but not successfully.
The Windows 10 installation completed from USB but when it reboots into Win 10, I get the error shown below associated with the pci.sys driver. I would assume it is not normal to get any sort of error booting into a fresh Windows installation.
Not sure where to go from here. Should I try running the installation again?
Start again, Boot off of the Windows installer, choose your Language, in the next windows choose Install Now, then Custom Install.
In Where Would You Like to Install Windows? Leave the System Reserved Partition, and the Windows 7 Partition and Delete any partitions after that so that part of the drive is Unallocated Space. Now click Next. Windows will create partitions in this space and format them during the install.
The cost of HDD's and SSD's is coming down, there is no reason to partition a drive and run two Windows OS on them. It is far easier if you just get a secondary drive, preferably an SSD and install Windows 10 to that.
I wasn't worried about the cost of the drives. This just seemed to me to be a neater solution. From the perspective of the OS or installer, why would whether it is a standalone drive or a partition of a drive matter? In the end, everything is a drive partition whether in the same physical container or not. Isn't that correct? I can't even think of the last time I've dedicated a full drive to an OS - I always buy a much larger drive and partition it, using half or more for non-OS-related data.
Re: your guidance - Your guidance is to run the installer again but to NOT first format the space that will be used for the Windows 10 partition and let the installer setup the unallocated space? I can give that a try. Why do you expect that doing so would have a different result? In the one case, I am formatting partition, then Windows installs files on it. In the other case, Windows formats a partition and installs files on it. What differentiates the two? I like to understand.
Again, thanks for the help.
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I did as suggested. Similar outcome, but the error is a little different. Are we certain that Windows 10 can be installed on an MBR disk?
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I would like to try this installation method (from your post#7), but I think I need a little bit more guidance to be confident I don't break my current Win7 installation.
Re: Boot Drive - what is this being used for given it will be the Win7 partition I am booted to?
Re: Options - these should all be set as shown in your screenshot?
So this software will mount the Win10 ISO and do the run the Win10 setup from inside Win7? No risk of it breaking my current Win7 installation?
Other than ease/efficiency, what is the expected benefit of doing the install this way?
Thanks.
Mike
The boot drive means the partition windows is booted from. It is where bootmgr and bcd live. It usually a separate partition about 100mb. It is the partition marked active on an mbr disk.
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