Not factory partitions, fail recovery after data migration

[Allmightyballs]

MSI GL73 8rd Laptop, Samsung evo 970 installed replacing a single HDD(1TB drive split into 2, showing 558g in C & 349 in Data)

 

I used Samsung data migration tool. It worked and will boot no problem.

 

It wont let me make any form of recovery, reset or allow me do a fresh windows install. Neither MSI dragon center or Windows itself will allow this, both state a form of "files missing" or " Your computers disk partitions are NOT factory default"(No recovery hidden partition). From what Ive researched this is a fairly common problem people come across

 

Windows 10 USB install fails, the back up I saved before I installed the 970 doesn't work

 

Any information on the subject, links, suggestions on troubleshooting...Just anything will help greatly. 

 

[Kilrah]

56 minutes ago, Allmightyballs said:

Windows 10 USB install fails

Fails how?

That should be your only option at this point, and should always work. 

[Allmightyballs]

@Kilrah To matter which USB dock I put the USB in, how bios is set to boot, using f3 or advanced start up, nothing kicks the USB to run, it just bypasses everything I do & boots to desktop. It acts like because it cant read or find the recovery partition it wont allow anything near that operation to work. It either goes right passed all my efforts or it gives me one of those errors in the pictures

[Kilrah]

Sounds more like not having made the install USB properly.

[Allmightyballs]

@Kilrah Its working now but giving me the same type of message, basically it cant go through because of missing files.

 

Would it be talking about the Samsung nvme driver or just the windows 10 recovery?

[Kilrah]

It would be talking of a driver for the SSD, but it shouldn't need one. You never get to the dialog to choose the drive?

[Allmightyballs]

@Kilrah Nope, no matter what It wont let me reinstall windows. It stops me every time in some way shape or form and mentions a driver, partition or USB. Using the win10 Usb is the furthest Ive gotten yet on installing but it stopped me right after choosing English

 

Im not entirely sure how to wipe the SSD to where its like clean out of the box so I can start over from scratch but Im thinking that maybe my only option.

[Kilrah]

9 minutes ago, Allmightyballs said:

It stops me every time in some way shape or form and mentions a driver, partition or USB

That really doesn't help troubleshooting, you should post pictures of where you get.

You should be able to delete everything in the destination selection window. 

[Allmightyballs]

@Kilrah Sorry I thought I maybe posting to many. I can get to the following then I start getting these error messages. These are from the Win10 USB attempt. Perhaps error messages is the wrong wording as well. In the pictures I cant even get to 25% of step 1 of installing windows before it shows the media needed message & then asks me to find a driver.

 

 

[Kilrah]

Then it doesn't see your drive. Is it seen in the BIOS?

[Allmightyballs]

@Kilrah It shows it as a bootable option in the bios. I had to switch it in a setting for it to show up & even though I did "disable" the other drive since the PC reads it as the "main bay" it would boot from the HDD regardless until the HDD was completely removed. 

 

Ive been wondering if its perhaps it was somehow a bios setting thats wrong stopping it from installing but I can point out what.

 

If theres any pictures you request to verify bios settings/ reading the Evo, just let me know & Ill post them. Right now Ive been trying to google a step by step way of starting fresh install of win10 for a nvme. Also cant help but be curious if the missing 70g of the original 1 TB hard drive is the files I need