I bought a new SSD to replace my old HDD and was very surprised by the fact that the new SSD did not show up in Windows file explorer at all. The cure was that the new SSD had to be initialized using "Disk manager" - that did the trick! Maybe that is your problem?
Hi troops
Just did a clean install of Win 10 Pro on a new hard drive myself, and experienced I think about 4 installs and reboots to the point where my thought processes kicked in and I shut down the process on a restart removed the USB with the new OS , and then restarted the machine without the USB in place and things progressed normally from that point.
Now I have to figure out how to delete the four copies of the operating system sequentially filed under :-
old, old1, old2, and old3, which were saved to the hard dive on each restart and reboot.
I hope this helps
Terry
This is a tutorial on clean install:
Clean Install Windows 10
In the tutorial all partitions are deleted.
The drive becomes unallocated.
There are no windows.old when performing a clean install.
Code:If you performed a refresh of Windows 10, upgrade to Windows 10, or a custom install of Windows 10 on the same partition as the previous Windows installation without doing a clean install, then you will have a C:\Windows.old folder in your new installation afterwards.
This is a tutorial on deleting windows old:
Delete Windows.old Folder in Windows 10
When performing a clean install all partitions are deleted.
As such there is no windows old.
If there are multiple windows old folders now then a method different from clean install was used.
If you want to perform a clean install which will delete all windows old then use this link:
Clean Install Windows 10
If you want to delete windows old after a refresh, upgrade, or custom install then use this link:
Delete Windows.old Folder in Windows 10
Hi zbook
It WAS a clean install on a new hard drive.
Because the machine restarted after finishing the first instal with the USB source of Win10 Pro still in place the, restart took the boot as a reboot and ran a second install from the USB putting the first completed install into a Windows Old Directory.
This situation reoccurred in a loop thus raising -Old1, -Old2, and -Old3.
Do not doubt that sequence occurred as described as I was there and you were not.
The loop was only broken when I broke into the loop at the beginning of a restart, shutting down, removing the USB after the shut down. Then on restarting the computer without the USB in place the machine went through a normal startup with the operating system in place and the replaced previous installs in the directories as previously described.
I will research the provided info in regard to deleting these Windows Old directories while perhaps retaining one of them as a “on disk” back up until the normal backup to my NAS system us re-instituted.
Thank you for your help.
tmno2
Last edited by tmno2; 26 May 2019 at 10:47. Reason: Duplicated post corrected
@tmn02,
Why not just do another clean install, making sure to delete all the partitions on the hard drive first, then pull the USB flash drive at the appropriate time so you get a true, clean install without all the "old" folders?
Hi NavyLCDR
Thank you for suggestion, however as an Official MS supplied USB stick was used I had thought it would, in the sequence of an installation, provide a break in the procedure and ask for the installation media to be removed prior to a restart.
This opportunity was not provided and thus the forced procedure as described earlier.
As I have installed some other major new stuff since and all still goes well, I will proceed in simple steps, create a backup and recovery disk, and then get rid of the “OLD” stuff,
I would not have thought that installation media sourced from Microsoft directly would have included a scripting oversight as I have described.
My initial insertion into this thread was to explain my experience of an installation boot loop, that up till that time, and in my view, had not been adequately explained.
tmno2
If you use storage from system in settings and run now you can remove all the old windows
Well....instead of setting the boot priority to boot from the USB flash drive first, you could have left the HDD/SSD first in the boot priority and just used the boot override menu to boot from the USB flash drive the first time for the install. Then it doesn't matter if you leave the flash drive in during the reboot because the next time the computer reboots, it follows the boot priority of HDD/SSD first.
There has never been a Windows installation routine (that I know of) that has ever prompted the user to remove the install media. There has always just been a 10 second countdown to when the computer would reboot.
Well, Sir, who was to know?
Refer to my reason for posting.
Thanks
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Thanks Samuria
Will try that.
tmno2
Terry
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