![]() ![]() ![]() In previous attempts it would hold on 0% for about thirty seconds this time it only stayed there for about five. It proceeded through "Copying Windows files." to "Expanding Windows files.", where it had failed so many times before. I then came to the now infamous installer screen.I was then able to move past the partition screen. But it would still not allow me to proceed, so I clicked "Delete" in the drive options. I then opened the drive option pull down menu and chose "Format." Suprisingly, the process completed without throwing an error (something that had never happened to me before). It threw an error message saying I was not able to use it (I cannot remember the specifics, unfortunately). However, when I clicked next, the installer would not allow me to proceed. Disk 0 was displayed as unallocated space and the "Next" button was not greyed out. The only hickup I ran into was on the partition screen. The USB installer created and the hard drive prepped, I plugged it into the laptop and booted up.I'm not willing to test it again though haha. Not sure if that had any positive effect but it seemed to work with it. Something that was also different this time around is that I selected FAT32 as the file system rather than NTSC. ![]() I changed out the USB stick (to one I knew worked well), downloaded Rufus, and ran it with the following settings: I think however this was more due to using a bad USB stick. Now, before we had begun to talk, I had used Refus, but it had proven unsuccessfully. Erico pointed to using Rufus, a third-party USB creation tool, to format the installation ISO appropriately. That means that the Windows installer you are using must also be in UEFI GPT format." This made sense, given the previous errors I had received about the drive having an MBR table. The second part that I found useful was this information: " Since 2012, notebooks have been delivered with UEFI BIOS and GPT partitioned disks rather than the legacy BIOS and MBR partition style.> select disk 0 (the only disk, as this laptop has only one slot).I inserted a (supposedly) non-working ISO DVD into the laptop's drive to gain access to cmd prompt. The first were the steps (which I had seen elsewhere and tried before but there was one new addition) of prepping the drive in DISKPART. I read through it and found two parts that helped solify an idea in my mind. I found this answer to a post about upgrading a laptop with an SSD by Erico.I had just about given up but kept reading some other forum posts and decided to give one more thing a go. Paul, exciting news! I finally managed to get it to work. ![]()
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