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Help, Windows 10 Pro not able to create install partition.
I bought a Samsung 950 Pro M.2 NVM Express drive. I was able to format it as an MBR drive and install the Windows 10 Pro operating system. It booted fine and I installed all of my programs. When I had finished I went to format an old Seagate hard drive that I did not need and when my system restarted, the bios could not find the boot record on this new SSD drive.
I tried to get Windows to repair this SSD but it reported it could not be repaired. Then I put back the old system drive and tried to fix this drive using DOS Commands but those did not work either. The drive still had all the files on it, is just seems to have lost the Master Boot Record.
I formatted the drive as simple volume and then I tried to install Windows 10 Pro again on it. The install program finds the drive but when I select that drive for installing, it reports that it could not install into that partition (or something like that) and it told me for more details to looks at the install log. It would have been nice if I knew where those logs are kept.
I am not quite sure how I can fix this problem, maybe the SSD is faulty? What I am thinking of doing is creating 2 partitions on that drive and then trying to get the Windows 10 installer to install to the second partition. Anyone have some other suggestions?
Ak