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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?
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  • Neil_Jones
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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?
  • J_B
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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.
    Brand new 250 GB drive
    Does the M2 drive show up in the BIOS?
    Yes, when I eventually found how to disable UEFI and enable legacy - I put it back to UEFI

  • HereToday
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    edited 2 June 2021 at 7:04PM
    Disconnect the HDD for now and try again.

    How did you create the USB installation media? Disable Fast Boot and Secure Boot if necessary.
  • J_B
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    Doh!
    I knew I shouldn't have screwed it back together ........................
  • pbartlett
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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.
  • J_B
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    edited 2 June 2021 at 9:42PM
    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.
    It's showing as Disk 0, Basic, 238.46 GB, Online, Unallocated
    What to do?
    EDIT - Trying this ....

  • J_B
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    HereToday said:
    How did you create the USB installation media? Disable Fast Boot and Secure Boot if necessary.
    I just followed your instructions from a previous thread - downloaded 'media creation tool', ran it and saved it to USB stick.
  • J_B
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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 ...
  • debitcardmayhem
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    edited 2 June 2021 at 11:01PM
    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 Fat32
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  • Devlin1976
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    edited 2 June 2021 at 11:13PM
    Try using diskpart and convert the GPT partition to MBR.
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