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Win10pro Install - please help, I am losing my mind!!!
Hi, I just migrated back to Win after a decade on Mac. Build my tower and am now failing miserably at installing Win 10 pro.
Here's the deal.
1. I format a USB drive to NTFS/GUID on my Mac Pro and copy the contents of the latest win10 disk image (Win10_1909_English_x64) onto it. (Exfat was not being recognized and Fat32 doesn't work as the Win install disk now has a file that is too big).
2. I plug the USB drive into the Win machine and load up windows installer.
3. Select Drive 0 (I only have 1 drive installed for now - a Samsung 970 500GB NVME) and hit next. It starts to install, but before copying any files (0%):
4. Error message pops up - Error Code: 0x0000005
5. I go back to the beginning and try again. I see the 4 partitions on the drive selection screen. Partition 4 is listed as Primary, so I select that and hit Next. I am told "We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one.. see setup log files"
6. I delete all partitions on this screen and attempt to install on a completely unallocated Drive 0.
7. I get the error "Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of the installation..."
8. I use diskpart to wipe the disk and try again. Same exact thing happens.
Slowly going insane here, any help greatly appreciated.