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Windows 10 install not detecting HD after wipe.
Hello again. I purchased a new HP Victus 016 and wanted to wipe the HD and merge the recovery partition with the main partition so I would have one drive that I could partition later on. I've done this with all of my new computers using Parted Magic. I then partition the unallocated space into two partitions, C and D, install windows on C, and use D for storage.
The first thing that happened was, Parted Magic would not load on a USB boot. So I used G Parted instead. That loaded on USB boot and I was able to delete the two partitions to unallocated space, but could not merge them.
So I left the partitions as unallocated space and tried to install W10 from USB stick. I select Custom Install when prompted and it takes me to "Where do you want to install Windows", but there are no drives shown. A message below says "We couldn't find any drives. To get a storage driver, click Load driver."
When I got the driver from Intel and put it on a separate USB stick, the setup program did not find it when I hit "Load Driver", perhaps because it's a .exe file?
I have gone back into G Parted several times and changed the disk settings from primary partition to extended partition. Also change the file system to NTFS and even tried Fat32. The default file system is ext4. Nothing has worked.
This is another first for me. I've never had windows fail to see an unallocated partition, so I'm at a loss for how to proceed. G Parted shows the two unallocated partitions as 27.25 GiB and 476.94 GiB, but windows install cannot see them.
I'm thinking there must be a particular way to format the partitions in G Parted so windows will see them, but I don't know how to configure them.
Any suggestions? Thank you.
HD: Intel hbrpeknx0202ah (512GB)