Howdy,

I've inherited a desktop with Windows 10 installed on a 1TB, single partition drive. For better or worse I belong to the "partitions" school, and would like to partition this physical drive...

Praise Jeebus! Threw a different HD in the machine, and installed Windows 10 without any issues. Said I didn't have a key...Thank you again NavyLCDR...

So, "we're" pretty confident that in...

Indeed. I'm absolutely booting from the USB drive, no issue there. but when it brings up the HDs and list of partitions, there are several very small (~100MB?) partitions that, when you click on...

1. created the USB stick as you suggested; just let windows do it's thing.
2. I know how to access my BIOS, and change boot orders and such, but the suggestion for this "we can't create a...

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!

Well NavyLCDR, I followed your advice, and everything was looking [suspiciously] good, and then I got the " we couldn’t create a new partition or locate an existing one"
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Well, well, that is something that had not occurred to me...even if I've totally wiped the HD, almighty Windows will somehow recognize it? Even though I cannot apparently activate my copy of Windows...

Hi there, guys, long time no speak. Everything was going smimmingly...Windows 10 installed...and then, one day, i got the BSD with [something like] "unlocatable boot device"

After trying all the...

Well, all I can tell you is that when I tried to activate it yesterday, on a different hard drive, and i went through the phone activation portion (which I did previously, only 1 time) it wouldn't...

Well, I'm back in business, but it did not go anywhere close to according to plan...Briefly;

I tried making a Windows 10 USB stick, and when I went to run it, it gave me some error message about...

holy hell you guys are getting way over my head now. I might just have to roof test this machine. :)
I'll let you know what happens this weekend.......

Well, y'all are still with me, so I'll keep amusing you with my increasingly poor choices. Disconnected (new) Windows 7 Drive, plugged in portable DVdrive, and attempted a fresh install of Windows 7...

Well, Hell. I gave it the old college try. EasyBCD wouldn't let me copy the boot files to a 'logical' drive, only primary. So I then downloaded Easeus Partition Master (which, ironically, sort of got...

Indeed. I'm contemplating just pulling the plug on drive 1 and doing another fresh install of windows 7 on drive 2. I'll have to reload a few programs but it feels a little safer. One 'last'...

Indeed, navallcdr hit the nail right on the head, and bad robot followed it up as well. The fix is definitely at the upper edge of my comfort zone. But I am a glutton for punishment. So lame that a...

Thanks, but either I've confused you, or you've confused me; Windows 7/10 was put on one physical drive, separate and apart from Windows XP on another physical drive. When I wiped out the Windows XP...

Hi there, newby to the forums but I hope y'all can help. Strap on in.
Desktop PC, 2 physical SATA hard drives.

Running Windows XP on physical drive "1"
Installed Windows 7 and subsequently...