Help! Windows can't install on SSD

[Spork829]

Just installed my shiny new SanDisk Ultra II, trying to install Windows and I get this:

I looked at the storage config settings in my BIOS but can't find anything that looks wrong. Specs in sig.

 

What do?

 

 

[ETHREAL1]

Does the board have two separate storage controllers?

[Spork829]

2 minutes ago, ETHREAL1 said:

Does the board have two separate storage controllers?

Yeah I think it has an ASMedia one as well as the chipset. I don't think the SATA port I'm using for it is on the ASMedia one but maybe?

[ETHREAL1]

Ive seen it in the past with SSDs so i would try that.

[ETHREAL1]

Something else to try is format the drive and the delete it again in the windows installer, before installing Windows I’ve seen that work as well

[adams]

What Windows are you installing?

[Spork829]

7 minutes ago, ETHREAL1 said:

Something else to try is format the drive and the delete it again in the windows installer, before installing Windows I’ve seen that work as well

Swapping SATA ports doesn't appear to be working. I would format but the button in the installer is greyed out.

 

6 minutes ago, adams said:

What Windows are you installing?

10 Home

[ETHREAL1]

1 minute ago, Spork829 said:

I would format but the button in the installer is greyed out.

Hum... there is a button close to the bottom that says “windows can’t be installed on this device, show details” what does that say? Most of the time it’s not helpful but every once and a while it says exactly what’s wrong

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, ETHREAL1 said:

Hum... there is a button close to the bottom that says “windows can’t be installed on this device, show details” what does that say? Most of the time it’s not helpful but every once and a while it says exactly what’s wrong

It pulls up the text box in the original post

[ETHREAL1]

Yup as I thought, not helpful...

 

is the computer still bootable from like an old drive?

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, ETHREAL1 said:

Yup as I thought, not helpful...

 

is the computer still bootable from like an old drive?

Yep. Unplugged SSD and Windows install media, plugged in old HDD, still boots from that just fine.

[ETHREAL1]

OK from the old windows install can you see and use the SSD in the disk management window?

[Spork829]

3 minutes ago, ETHREAL1 said:

OK from the old window can you see the SSD in the disk management window?

Whoa, booted w/ both plugged in and bluescreened on startup. Code is MACHINE CHECK EXCEPTION. This is weird

[Spork829]

5 minutes ago, ETHREAL1 said:

OK from the old window can you see the SSD in the disk management window?

And it's stuck at 0%. Excellent...

[ETHREAL1]

2 hours ago, Spork829 said:

Whoa, booted w/ both plugged in and bluescreened on startup. Code is MACHINE CHECK EXCEPTION. This is weird

Ya that’s strange, try booting and then plugging in the sata to the SSD so that the computer is already booted.

 

2 hours ago, Spork829 said:

And it's stuck at 0%. Excellent...

You may have to hard power off and unplug the ssd so that windows can fix itself 

 

Can you by chance send a few pictures of the bios storage configuration stuff?

 

2 hours ago, Spork829 said:

MACHINE CHECK EXCEPTION

That’s bad by the way, something is either faulty or broke as we are testing, the testing would not of caused any of this so....

[Spork829]

Just now, ETHREAL1 said:

That’s bad by the way, something is either faulty or broke as we are testing, the testing would not of caused any of this so....

Not sure. Either way, I plugged in the SSD after booting and I'm not seeing anything in disk manager

[ETHREAL1]

I’m assuming the boot drive shows up so...

 

I don’t know for sure but I would say that 1 of 3 things has happened;

1 SSD is faulty

2 bios problem

3 storage controller problem

 

Oh and I guess a driver problem but it’s strang to need a driver for sata drives with a few exceptions

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, ETHREAL1 said:

I’m assuming the boot drive shows up so...

 

I don’t know for sure but I would say that 1 of 3 things has happened;

1 SSD is faulty

2 bios problem

3 storage controller problem

Yes it does. I'd venture to say it might be the Intel storage controller, actually. Because what I realized is that both my old HDDs are running off the ASMedia ports. It's only BSODing and not detecting things when I try and use one of the Intel ports. I'm gonna see if I can get things working if I use one of the ASMedia ports for the SSD.

[ETHREAL1]

1 minute ago, Spork829 said:

I'm gonna see if I can get things working if I use one of the ASMedia ports for the SSD.

It’s worth a shot but be warned it may not work a lot of the older asmedia controllers can’t use SSDs...

[Spork829]

4 minutes ago, ETHREAL1 said:

It’s worth a shot but be warned it may not work a lot of the older asmedia controllers can’t use SSDs...

 That seems to have worked. Booted with both drives plugged into the ASMedia ports, didn't BSOD and now I see the SSD in disk management. So I guess only 2 of my 8 SATA ports are properly functional.... Yippee

[ETHREAL1]

1 minute ago, Spork829 said:

So I guess only 2 of my 8 SATA ports are properly functional.... Yippee

After you get thing up and running see if there are bios updates and drivers for the intel storage controller, that may fix the problem.

[Spork829]

2 hours ago, ETHREAL1 said:

After you get thing up and running see if there are bios updates and drivers for the intel storage controller, that may fix the problem.

Hope so. Let me go back to the Windows install media and make sure my original issue is solved first though

So now it's giving me a different error message, about how the disk is of the GPT partition style. I think I remember seeing that's a common issue, do you know anything about that?

[ETHREAL1]

7 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

GPT partition style

Here;

 

• Enter system installing interface by using Win 10 disc or USB hard drive boot. and then press “Shift”+”F10” to open the command prompt.
• Input “Diskpart” (do not input quotation mark, the following as well), and then press “Enter”to enter operating interface.
• Input “list disk”: to check hard disk properties. Pay more attention to capacity of hard disk to select. Usually, disk 0 is hard disk, and disk 1 is the usb dirve where wins 10 install.
• Input “select disk 0”: to select disk 0 as the disk that is operating.
• Input “clean”: to clean up current hard disk’s partition.
• Input “convert mbr”: to convert GPT into MBR.
• Input “create partition primary size = xxx”: to create the size of primary partition.
• Input “format fs = ntfs quick”: to format disk to NTFS quickly.
• Input “exit”: to finish operating.
• Input “exit”: to shut down the command prompt.

[ETHREAL1]

Your disk number may be different if you have multiple disks connected 

[Spork829]

4 minutes ago, ETHREAL1 said:

Input “create partition primary size = xxx

What size do I make this relative to the SSD?