Windows install fail with new Sang

Lanc424

I have Swift 3 that has had a SSD drive fail. I purchased a 500 gb Samsung 970 drive.. Everything goes fine with a clean install from a USB ISO Windows install but it fails at around 10% says files are missing. I have tried external DVD Boot as well. Any help would be appreciated. Bios finds proper drive.

StevenGen

Lanc424 said:

I have Swift 3 that has had a SSD drive fail. I purchased a 500 gb Samsung 970 drive.. Everything goes fine with a clean install from a USB ISO Windows install but it fails at around 10% says files are missing. I have tried external DVD Boot as well. Any help would be appreciated. Bios finds proper drive.

First Lanc424, you should never ever show a caption of your SNID and S/N numbers (just some sound advice)!

Have you completely formatted the drive during installation? If not you have to do that, have a look at this comprehensive guide “How to do a Clean Install of Windows 10 the Easy Way” of what to do at:  How to do a Clean Install of Windows 10 the Easy Way (howtogeek.com)) as you are doing something wrong as a ‘Clean Install” is a very simple process.

Lanc424

Thanks for your response. Yes I am using the tool and doing a format of the partition. Thats the crazy thing I've been working on computers since DOS. This is the first time the media creation tool has failed me. I was hoping someone else has experienced this .. This is the first time I have changed an SSD drive like this.. It shows in Bios and the creation tool sees it and allows format. I had to change it from GTP to MBR and have tried changing to legacy and the install fails .. puzzled 

billsey

A format of the partition and cleaning the partitions off the drive are two different things. Delete the partitions and let the Windows installer replace them. It needs to be GPT, not MBR. Everything after Windows 7 uses GPT and UEFI.

Lanc424

Thats what I thought but during the initial install windows said it could not work on a GPT drive. The New USB kingston stick im using to do the install .was formatted fat 32 from factory.  Does it need to be NTFS? 
Thanks for your help

billsey

Likely it is something like that. How did you create the install image? Using Rufus or MS Media Creation Tool?

Lanc424

Ms media creation first.. no go
Rufus next. Still no go

billsey

OK, which ISO image are you working with? Is there a chance it's corrupt?

Lanc424

I have tried 3  ver 1909 on DVD  Ver 20h2 on USB and 20h2 on USB using Rufus for GPT LOAD

billsey

I wonder if either the flash drive is a fake and doesn't really have the full capacity or the new SSD is bad. When you use Rufus to create the 20H2 install try turning on the "Check for bad blocks" option under Advanced.

Lanc424

Tried 2 different brand new kingston 64 gb and rufus found no errors  ... confused

billsey

Have you got an external case you can use to test the SSD?

Lanc424

This is not an ssd 2.5  it is a 970 samsung stick 6 pins and 5 pins. Do they make a USB adaptor for these

billsey

Yup, I picked up a couple of them on Amazon when I was doing the upgrades to my desktop.