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Lewi Shamilton
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Hello, I have recently purchased an Intel 660p Series M.2 2280. like a dumdum, I just thought I could clone my current SSD to the new one. after doing that, I cannot seem to get my computer to boot.

 

What I'd like to do now is to completely restore the new Intel ssd to a new, unpartitioned status with no data on it. Then I will just start with a fresh install of windows. How would you recommend I do that?

 

Thanks for any help.

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You can install as it is, whatever installation was cloned will be moved to windows.old folder automatically

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Just now, RageTester said:

You can install as it is, whatever installation was cloned will be moved to windows.old folder automatically

ah yes. I forgot to mention. I tried with a windows installer thumb drive to just install windows over everything but it said that none of the partitions that were created were able to have windows installed on them. it was pretty strange since I just figured the windows installation software would just overwrite and do what it needed to in order to work it out.

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5 minutes ago, Lewi Shamilton said:

Hello, I have recently purchased an Intel 660p Series M.2 2280. like a dumdum, I just thought I could clone my current SSD to the new one. after doing that, I cannot seem to get my computer to boot.

 

What I'd like to do now is to completely restore the new Intel ssd to a new, unpartitioned status with no data on it. Then I will just start with a fresh install of windows. How would you recommend I do that?

 

Thanks for any help.

When you go for a new format, in the beginning where the drives are shown chose format (delete everything else, partition ect...)and continue as normal install

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2 minutes ago, Lewi Shamilton said:

ah yes. I forgot to mention. I tried with a windows installer thumb drive to just install windows over everything but it said that none of the partitions that were created were able to have windows installed on them. it was pretty strange since I just figured the windows installation software would just overwrite and do what it needed to in order to work it out.

you do it manually 

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Just now, Constantin said:

you do it manually 

oh okay. so I guess I'm a noob. what does manually mean?

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What the post above said. In the installer when you get to choose the drive to install to you delete all partitions and select the free space.

Disconnect all other drives than the one you want to install to before starting.

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1 minute ago, Lewi Shamilton said:

oh okay. so I guess I'm a noob. what does manually mean?

at the point where it shows the drives, look the options you have

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Maybe there is not enough free space? If you cloned from full, but smaller drive, new one might have unpartitioned space left...so you can either create new partition or format the whole drive...

 

Enter command prompt,

diskpart

list disk

select disk number

create partition primary size=numberinmegabytes

 

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3 minutes ago, Constantin said:

at the point where it shows the drives, look the options you have

I'll try it, many thanks.

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