What's happened to Samsung laptop

john240870

Windows 10 installation media downloaded and saved onto USB Flash Drive.

EveryWhere

john240870 wrote: »

Windows 10 installation media downloaded and saved onto USB Flash Drive.

Not quite. You have created installation media on the USB drive. Downloaded and saved means downloaded and saved.

We'll swap drives and get started once you are happy that you have made backups of the data that you wish to keep.

john240870

EveryWhere wrote: »

Not quite. You have created installation media on the USB drive. Downloaded and saved means downloaded and saved.

We'll swap drives and get started once you are happy that you have made backups of the data that you wish to keep.

So what's the easiest way of copying everything from SSD to HDD. As HDD is much bigger than the SSD so thought if I just copy everything over. then once the SSD is working I can copy things over as and when I need them, as the SSD is quite small. So only what to copy things over if I need them.

EveryWhere

john240870 wrote: »

So what's the easiest way of copying everything from SSD to HDD. As HDD is much bigger than the SSD so thought if I just copy everything over. then once the SSD is working I can copy things over as and when I need them, as the SSD is quite small. So only what to copy things over if I need them.

grumpycrab informed you, in post #64

john240870

Right I believe ive copied everything needed. Can't believe I had so much rubbish on there. No wonder I was running out of room lol.

EveryWhere

john240870 wrote: »

Right I believe ive copied everything needed. Can't believe I had so much rubbish on there. No wonder I was running out of room lol.

So next we hope that we can install to your SSD(replace it within the laptop).

Then you plug the installation media on the USB into the right hand side of the laptop. Restart the laptop and then keep pressing the F10 key every half a second, until you see a Boot Menu.
From the Boot Menu choose the USB Flash Drive if you can see it there.

If you cannot see it, try this;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiIGwsEYB18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiIGwsEYB18

john240870

Hi it's asking which type of installation do you want upgrade or custom
What happens to all the stuff already on SSD will that get deleted.

john240870

Hi clicked on upgrade and it said can't do upgrade from USB. So clicked custom
But now it says Windows can't be installed on drive 0 partition 1 and when i click on the over one it says the same with that drive. Do I need to format the drive first. At the bottom of the page it says
Refresh
Delete
Format
New
Load driver
Extend

EveryWhere

john240870 wrote: »

Hi it's asking which type of installation do you want upgrade or custom
What happens to all the stuff already on SSD will that get deleted.

Custom (All will be deleted)
and then choose to delete all former partitions




Until you have only Unallocated Space


Then you can choose Next(not New as shown in the pic)


During installation; https://fdossena.com/?p=w10debotnet/index_1903.frag

You can stop before; LET IT DOWNLOAD ALL THE UPDATES

john240870

I've deleted drive and it now says
drive 0 unallocated space 232.6gb
But it's still saying Windows can't be installed on this drive. And when I click show details it says Windows cannot be installed on the disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table . On EFI systems. Windows can only be installed to GPT Disk