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New Win10 install with USB tools and AMD

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Denly

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Hello, I work on a lot of older PC/Laptop of all kind. C2D and up. If I am doing win10 I usually use the USB drive created by MS creation tool(Nov 2015 release). I never have any issue with Intel system but with AMD system it almost never work, it is always the "can't create partition" on hard drive screen. On AM2/3 platform is it is 99% fail and I have played around with every single bios SATA options.
Any advise?
 
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Wipe the hard drive with another machine first. That way a clean NTFS partition is ready. Also, NO other SATA drives can be connected during install. Plug them in after.
 
Denly said:
You mean plug it in to a working PC and do a format?

so I have to unplug optical drive as well?
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You can use some sort of boot CD to clean the drive, like Acronis, and I think there are USB options, I just am not familiar with them. You can also leave the optical drive plugged in because the OS install won't try to write anything to it. Any other hard drives should be unplugged during OS install to keep Windows from writing any files to other than the C: drive.
 
Charlie98 said:
You can use some sort of boot CD to clean the drive, like Acronis, and I think there are USB options, I just am not familiar with them. You can also leave the optical drive plugged in because the OS install won't try to write anything to it. Any other hard drives should be unplugged during OS install to keep Windows from writing any files to other than the C: drive.
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I almost always have only one hard drive when I do the install, I have tried

delete and create volume within creation tools

format the drive with a w7 boot disc then plugin the USB w10 tools

both fail.

And that is not a isolated case, I tried at least 10 Dell/HP/Lenovo Ph II class PC and they all fail.
 
Denly said:
I almost always have only one hard drive when I do the install, I have tried

delete and create volume within creation tools

format the drive with a w7 boot disc then plugin the USB w10 tools

both fail.

And that is not a isolated case, I tried at least 10 Dell/HP/Lenovo Ph II class PC and they all fail.
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Maybe let Windows create the volume... wipe it and let it act like a new drive?

I've installed Windows quite a few times on my AMD laptop and have never had 1 lick of problems, including Windows 7. I've had W10 on it, but it was an upgrade, not a clean install.
 
I have seen an issue with win 10 clean install with some systems including Phenom II, with windows 7 on the system already. If it is the same problem, it is due to the system reserve partition being too small. You will need to use a partition utility like GParted to resize the reserve. Make it about 430MB, no more than 450MB. See if that works for you.
 
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