Cool Buddy
Wise Old Owl
I recently bought an SSD with a caddy and put it in my HP Pavilion G6 laptop. However, I am unable to install Windows on the SSD.
I had formatted my SSD into NTFS drives with GPT. My primary partition was bigger than my current C drive.
These are the things I have tried already:
I had formatted my SSD into NTFS drives with GPT. My primary partition was bigger than my current C drive.
These are the things I have tried already:
- I cloned my C drive to a partition on the SSD. However, the laptop didn't recognise the SSD as a boot disk. There is no option in the BIOS to change the boot priority of the drives.
- I tried running Windows setup directly from an ISO file. It copied files but after the first restart, gave an error saying Windows was unable to complete configuration, please restart to complete. Restarting doesn't work and eventually it boots back into the original OS installed on the SSD.
- I tried running the setup from a pen drive, but I got an error saying the boot drive didn't work. Interestingly, I had installed windows on my HDD just 3 months back using the same pen drive created using Rufus.