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Problem installing W10 on M2 drive
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J_B
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Dell Inspiron 15 5000 series - I've opened it up and added an M2 SSD, but struggling to get W10 to install on it.
I have the W10 media on USB, booted from USB and got to the 'where do you want to install' and select the M2 drive but get a 0x803000024 error and the option to format the drive is greyed out
I've rebooted to the old SSD but W Explorer doesn't see this drive.
Any thoughts anyone?0
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Error code 0X80300024 can be caused by anything from insufficient disk space on the destination drive or damaged/corrupted installation media to a damaged, dying or otherwise corrupted hard drive.Does the M2 drive show up in the BIOS?1
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Neil_Jones said:Error code 0X80300024 can be caused by anything from insufficient disk space on the destination drive or damaged/corrupted installation media to a damaged, dying or otherwise corrupted hard drive.Neil_Jones said:Does the M2 drive show up in the BIOS?
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Disconnect the HDD for now and try again.
How did you create the USB installation media? Disable Fast Boot and Secure Boot if necessary.1 -
Doh!I knew I shouldn't have screwed it back together ........................0
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have you looked in w10 drive management to see if it is there. if so, can you then format it and assign a drive letter. if not it may be faulty.1
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pbartlett said:have you looked in w10 drive management to see if it is there. if so, can you then format it and assign a drive letter. if not it may be faulty.What to do?EDIT - Trying this ....
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Still struggling, sadly.When I boot to the old HDD, I can now see the new drive, it's called D now.However, when I boot from the USB and run the W10 installation, it says <<Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style>>I changed the boot mode from UEFI to Legacy, but it made no difference.Bedtime methinks ... maybe tomorrow ...
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J_B said:Still struggling, sadly.When I boot to the old HDD, I can now see the new drive, it's called D now.However, when I boot from the USB and run the W10 installation, it says <<Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style>>I changed the boot mode from UEFI to Legacy, but it made no difference.Bedtime methinks ... maybe tomorrow ...perhaps your BIOS doesn't support GPT , but I would doubt it if is less than 20+years old. You could format the new disk as MBR but I have never needed to do that unless by choice...hmmm someone may come up with a more useful suggestion and a reason why the MS iso won't work.EDITED:Oh is the USB formatted as NTFS , I remember it has to be Fat324.8kWp 12x400W Longhi 9.6 kWh battery Giv-hy 5.0 Inverter, WSW facing Essex . Aint no sunshine ☀️ Octopus gas fixed dec 24 @ 5.74 tracker again+ Octopus Intelligent Flux leccy1
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Try using diskpart and convert the GPT partition to MBR.0
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