Windows boot partition on wrong drive?

[Callum1708]

Hi Guys, really hoping you can help me with something. Been having an absolute nightmare trying to do something I thought was going to be easy.

 

So here's the deal. I recently bought an NVME M.2 SSD. I currently have a normal SATA SSD with my windows 10 install on it.

 

What I wanted to do was install a clean install of windows 10 onto the new drive and then format the old drive so that it was just empty.

 

So I created a windows 10 install usb, loaded it up went though the process of installing windows 10 and... it crashes half way though installing the OS onto the new drive. 

 

When I boot onto the drive it takes me though setting up windows 10 (the usual, do you want this and that and whatever and then it will just crash to a black screen requiring a hard reset).

 

Now, I can still boot into my old OS on my old drive. However for some really strange reason the new drive now has a recovery partition, a system partition and an empty partition (with page file). I am unable to format this drive back to completely empty because of the page file (according to diskpart anyway)

 

Honestly I'm just incredibly confused and I just want my new drive to be completely empty now and have my old OS work.

 

Sorry if this doesn't make any sense.

 

I will provide a screenshot of my disk management screen and diskpart below.

 

 

 

[SpaceGhostC2C]

Go to Control Panel\System and Security\System, from there "Advance system settings", "Advanced", next to "Performance" click on "settings", "Advanced" (yes, for the 3rd time...), next to "Virtual memory" click "change". There, make sure drive "D:\" is not used for page file. Accept/apply and, if prompted, reboot. You should be able to remove the partition then. 

But hey, no guarantee, no money back!

[Callum1708]

6 minutes ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

Go to Control Panel\System and Security\System, from there "Advance system settings", "Advanced", next to "Performance" click on "settings", "Advanced" (yes, for the 3rd time...), next to "Virtual memory" click "change". There, make sure drive "D:\" is not used for page file. Accept/apply and, if prompted, reboot. You should be able to remove the partition then. 

But hey, no guarantee, no money back!

Mate your a life saver, that's done it. 

 

I'm going to try one last time to get windows 10 installed on this drive. (I think my usb installation media might need re-doing).

 

Thanks a lot for that