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On the Win 10 installer partition page, after deleting the intended partition and recreating the required Win 10 partitions, reformatting the NTFS partition, and clicking 'Next', I kept getting the error 'we couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information see the set up log files'.
I tried the same by just deleting my intended partition and clicking 'next' as the guide suggested to, and that also failed. It got stuck on copying files 0% then stated I would have to start the install process again. Doing that, I could see Windows had created the required partitions but it couldn't install onto them, as above.
I believe Win installer is expecting an MBR partition table and when it finds a GPT one on the target drive it doesn't work. My drive was formatted to GUID. Is there any way of booting up the installer in GPT mode not MBR mode? I am assuming worse case I can reformat this drive or a dedicated Windows drive as MBR.
I tried using an install DVD made from the latest Win 10 ISO and also from USB (formatted as GUID/FAT32, made with Rufus v3.8 and another attempt with v2.18). Neither was detected by BIOS until I enabled CSM Support. And even then, the DVD failed as described above whilst the USB stick did not boot up at all (either from BIOS or Clover). I assume I need to try again using a USB created using the MS Media Creation Tool when I have access to a Windows 10 PC (I wiped my existing Win 8.1 drive lol).
I tried the same by just deleting my intended partition and clicking 'next' as the guide suggested to, and that also failed. It got stuck on copying files 0% then stated I would have to start the install process again. Doing that, I could see Windows had created the required partitions but it couldn't install onto them, as above.
I believe Win installer is expecting an MBR partition table and when it finds a GPT one on the target drive it doesn't work. My drive was formatted to GUID. Is there any way of booting up the installer in GPT mode not MBR mode? I am assuming worse case I can reformat this drive or a dedicated Windows drive as MBR.
I tried using an install DVD made from the latest Win 10 ISO and also from USB (formatted as GUID/FAT32, made with Rufus v3.8 and another attempt with v2.18). Neither was detected by BIOS until I enabled CSM Support. And even then, the DVD failed as described above whilst the USB stick did not boot up at all (either from BIOS or Clover). I assume I need to try again using a USB created using the MS Media Creation Tool when I have access to a Windows 10 PC (I wiped my existing Win 8.1 drive lol).
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