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unable to do virgin w10 install to samsung nvme m.2 drive
Windows 10 pro (if it ever installs), i9-9900kf chip, MSI MPG z390 Gaming Plus mobo, 64gb ddr4 ram, EVGA 850 watt power supply with a nasty coil whine, Samsung 970 EVO plus 2TB
I'm still struggling to get my DAW working and have given up trying to do a repair install, it simply can't be done for reasons I don't understand at all. But I'm going to have to reconfigure so many things to get the DAW functional, it probably isn't really much of time saver.
So I do the whole media creation thing to a usb-drive. Remove all other drives except for the Samsung, boot, go through the screens until I get to telling it where to install. It sees the virgin drive, single partition and when I try to select it, it gives me an error message (sadly, I didn't write it down) which amounts to it saying the ssd drive is the wrong format. But it won't let me reformat the drive into what it wants. So I'm stuck.
What is the key here that I'm missing? Is the 2TB too big for Windows, do I need to format it into something smaller -- and, if so, what's the maximum size that Windows can deal with for a boot disk? Is there something else that's bleeding obvious that I'm not remembering to do?