Trying to reinstall Win10

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  1. gregavi
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    Windows 10
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       New #11

    I was finally able to get it installed by using this guys tutorial on YouTube. Through the cmd, he instructed to clean and then partition the new drive and then copy the contents from the USB boot drive onto the new C drive, remove the USB drive and then boot. Worked like a charm.
    Now all I need to do is reinstall all my programs.
    Thanks for all the replies.

    Solved: Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition - YouTube
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  3. dalchina
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    Win 10 Pro (22H2) (2nd PC is 22H2)
       New #12

    then partition the new drive and then copy the contents from the USB boot drive
    I've never heard of installing Windows described like that. It sounds very peculiar.

    From a comment above it sounds like you had partitioned the drive, and were trying to install to a partition not to unallocated space as others have mentioned above.

    For future reference:
    Clean Install Windows 10

    I'm also unconvinced you described creating a bootable flash drive to install Windows. See:
    Create Bootable USB Flash Drive to Install Windows 10

    How do you protect yourself from future problems and clean installs and save time?

    Assuming you have indeed a working Windows installation (if it's UEFI you should have 4 partitions - check) then make sure you start using disk imaging routinely and regularly (Macrium Relfect - free + large enough external storage for image files.

    The very act of disk imaging checks the integrity of the used parts of imaged partitions.

    Should your disk fail you can then restore your most recent image of all Windows partitions to a new drive. Plus gives you a second chance in many other cases and a full backup of imaged partitions.

    To monitor your disks' health and be alerted of degradation you can run Crystal Diskinfo (free) and set it to alert you as you wish.
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