i need help fixing a laptop

[Ashleyyyy]

i'm fixing a laptop, and it's behaving very strange. 

 

the problem with it was it had a broken SSD. i've put in a new SSD, and this is where the weirdness begins. 

 

the drive configuration now is a 60gb SSD that i put in and a 750GB HDD that was already in the laptop, and is still working fine. 

 

if i try to install Windows 10 and select the ssd, it installs, but boots up to a black screen with a flashing cursor. if i try to boot from the hdd which is empty it says disk read error. 

 

i then tried to install Ubuntu 18.04 and that installed and boots completely fine. it's booted up and running now. i've noticed Windows installed the bootloader for Windows on the hdd, not the ssd even though i didn't select that drive at all. and booting from that hdd resulted in a disk read error before. 

 

i really need to get Windows on this laptop, so any help is welcome. 

[takagi19]

Have you tried removing the HDD for the meantime, install Windows on the SSD, and then return the HDD after?

[Ashleyyyy]

5 minutes ago, takagi19 said:

Have you tried removing the HDD for the meantime, install Windows on the SSD, and then return the HDD after?

nope. i'm gonna try that now. 

[desertcomputer]

13 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

nope. i'm gonna try that now. 

^

 

Just a tip in future, if you going to install window 10 have only one drive plugged into system (the one you going to install windows) as window love to leave it shit on every drive it see at installation.

 

edit: it makes pretty much all future installation with mix drive solution so painless as user can remove/add any drive in future without any issues.

[Ashleyyyy]

1 hour ago, takagi19 said:

Have you tried removing the HDD for the meantime, install Windows on the SSD, and then return the HDD after?

ok that worked. Windows is installed. thank you

[takagi19]

4 hours ago, firelighter487 said:

ok that worked. Windows is installed. thank you

You're welcome. Glad to have helped!