Oussebon
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I have 4 SSDs:
840 Evo - main Win 10 Pro install (1709)
850 Evo - Win 10 Pro N 1809
MX500 - Windows 7 Ultimate - also 2 separate partitions, both for games
Intel 520 - problem
The Intel 520 had a Windows 10 1803 install encrypted with Bitlocker which I use for work.
This wouldn't boot today (error code 0x00000098). As it has hardly anything on it, just some browsers and downloaded office365 I decided to just do a clean install as it would take about as little time to do this as to google a solution.
I used diskpart clean to clear the drive
I booted from my USB disk, which successfully installed 1809 yesterday.
I install Windows 1809 from a USB disk to the Intel drive. The process appears to work fine, the system restarts, and will then happily boot to anything but the Intel SSD.
Looking at the SSD from another OS, it's readable and has what looks like a Windows install on it, although Disk Management shows it to only have the 1 partition. It does, however, apparently have a 16MB MSR partition on it
I tried reinstalling several times, deleting the partitions and installing to either a formatted partition the size of the drive or to the empty space and letting Windows create the partitions it wants.
I've recently rearranged drives in the PC, moving them from the HDD cages to an adapter for the 5.25" bay. It's not hot-swap, just a tray to hold them. This has involved unplugging them and plugging them back in. The MX500 is a new addition. Previously the 850 Evo had the Win 7 install, which with Macrium Reflect I was able to migrate over to the MX500, freeing up the 850 Evo for a clean install of Win 10 1809.
The Intel SSD happily booted Windows after the addition of the MX500 and the move of the Win 7 install to the MX500, when every drive had been unplugged at least once. Yesterday I unplugged the 850 Evo and then plugged it back in, before doing my clean 1809 install.
Pretty much every time I unplugged and replugged in a drive, this caused every OS on booting to insist on running a disk check.
I can only guess that at some point this resulted in the Windows install on the Intel drive being screwed up.
I am therefore loath to disconnect other drives when trying to install Windows.
However, I just installed Ubuntu to the Intel SSD, and for reasons I'm not really sure of it decided to install 2 partitions to my 850 Evo and now I can't boot Windows from that, although it's not a big deal as it was only a fresh install yesterday...
Fast boot is disabled
CSM is enabled
I've cleared the TPM
Setting the Intel SSD to the top of the boot order and disabling all other boot options makes no difference.
All I want is to install Windows to a drive... :/ Or any OS, I'll take any OS that can be encrypted as long as it doesn't wipe out my other installations....
Any suggestions? I'm losing so much time over this nonsense.
840 Evo - main Win 10 Pro install (1709)
850 Evo - Win 10 Pro N 1809
MX500 - Windows 7 Ultimate - also 2 separate partitions, both for games
Intel 520 - problem
The Intel 520 had a Windows 10 1803 install encrypted with Bitlocker which I use for work.
This wouldn't boot today (error code 0x00000098). As it has hardly anything on it, just some browsers and downloaded office365 I decided to just do a clean install as it would take about as little time to do this as to google a solution.
I used diskpart clean to clear the drive
I booted from my USB disk, which successfully installed 1809 yesterday.
I install Windows 1809 from a USB disk to the Intel drive. The process appears to work fine, the system restarts, and will then happily boot to anything but the Intel SSD.
Looking at the SSD from another OS, it's readable and has what looks like a Windows install on it, although Disk Management shows it to only have the 1 partition. It does, however, apparently have a 16MB MSR partition on it
I tried reinstalling several times, deleting the partitions and installing to either a formatted partition the size of the drive or to the empty space and letting Windows create the partitions it wants.
I've recently rearranged drives in the PC, moving them from the HDD cages to an adapter for the 5.25" bay. It's not hot-swap, just a tray to hold them. This has involved unplugging them and plugging them back in. The MX500 is a new addition. Previously the 850 Evo had the Win 7 install, which with Macrium Reflect I was able to migrate over to the MX500, freeing up the 850 Evo for a clean install of Win 10 1809.
The Intel SSD happily booted Windows after the addition of the MX500 and the move of the Win 7 install to the MX500, when every drive had been unplugged at least once. Yesterday I unplugged the 850 Evo and then plugged it back in, before doing my clean 1809 install.
Pretty much every time I unplugged and replugged in a drive, this caused every OS on booting to insist on running a disk check.
I can only guess that at some point this resulted in the Windows install on the Intel drive being screwed up.
I am therefore loath to disconnect other drives when trying to install Windows.
However, I just installed Ubuntu to the Intel SSD, and for reasons I'm not really sure of it decided to install 2 partitions to my 850 Evo and now I can't boot Windows from that, although it's not a big deal as it was only a fresh install yesterday...
Fast boot is disabled
CSM is enabled
I've cleared the TPM
Setting the Intel SSD to the top of the boot order and disabling all other boot options makes no difference.
All I want is to install Windows to a drive... :/ Or any OS, I'll take any OS that can be encrypted as long as it doesn't wipe out my other installations....
Any suggestions? I'm losing so much time over this nonsense.