How do you choose where OS is installed?

Ravatex · April 9, 2019

I am looking at computers and one thing I don't know is how do you chose to install the OS e.g. Windows 10 onto an SSD?

From first time powering on to finish what are the steps?

Like I said I have no idea so every little step would be greatly appreciated I want to know for SURE before I get the PC.

Slottr · April 9, 2019

When you're in windows bootable media you choose out of a list of drives and partitions

Eastman51 · April 9, 2019

Lets say you have 4 drives in your PC for example. Its a new build, none of the drives have ever been used before.

You've got a USB installer that you made so that you can install Windows 10 on one of those drives.

You plug in the USB drive, boot to it (should be automatic when there's nothing on the other drives), click through the menus until you get to a fork where it gives you two options. One says default (iirc), the other says custom. Pick custom and it will give you a list of drives and their size (in MiB). Assuming all the drives have different capacities, picking which drive is really easy; select that drive and then click "new" near the bottom of the window. That will setup all the necessary partitions, then click next and Windows will install to the selected drive.

Ravatex · April 9, 2019

5 minutes ago, Slottr said:

When you're in windows bootable media you choose out of a list of drives and partitions

Thanks!

Ravatex · April 9, 2019

2 minutes ago, Eastman51 said:

Lets say you have 4 drives in your PC for example. Its a new build, none of the drives have ever been used before.

You've got a USB installer that you made so that you can install Windows 10 on one of those drives.

You plug in the USB drive, boot to it (should be automatic when there's nothing on the other drives), click through the menus until you get to a fork where it gives you two options. One says default (iirc), the other says custom. Pick custom and it will give you a list of drives and their size (in MiB). Assuming all the drives have different capacities, picking which drive is really easy; select that drive and then click "new" near the bottom of the window. That will setup all the necessary partitions, then click next and Windows will install to the selected drive.

Thanks for the Info! Much Appreciated!