Right click on Disk 1, select Initalize then quick format disk 1. Open Disk Management (Win+X->Disk Management), Follow the steps on the screen to install Windows.Click on Next, select Custom then select disk 0 by hite lighting it.Ĭlick Next and let Windows create neccessary partitions. Also note: Clean all on Disk 1 will write 0 on every byte of the disk, this will take some time to complete so that no info/data can be recovered. So you don't need to disconnect anything. NOTE: Those commands will wipe out disk 0 and disk 1 and they are both now unallocated Boot up the Windows 10 Installation disk with UEFI mode.The easiest way to re-install Windows is: Once you have installed Win 10 on the SSD, do a full format (not quick) on the HDD (It will take hours) to make sure data can't be retrieved.īased on what you have shown above. Remember that on a empty drive that hasn't been properly 'clean' someone can always retrieve the data. Make sure you you select to install on the unallocated space of the SSD and then proceed. Now you boot the from the Toshiba HDD EFI Fat32 partition and then the boot sequence is transfer ed to the SSD.Īs you're selling the computer, boot from the USB installation drive, go to install and delete ALL partitions on the HDD and on the SSD till you have one and only one unallocated space on each drive. When you installed Win 10 on the SSD it used the boot loader on the Toshiba HDD EFI Fat32 partition instead of creating a new one on the SSD. Option 1 (Windows Boot Manager on the Toshiba HDD) is the option to boot the HDD-SSD.

It shows the boot loaders that are on the EFI Fat32 partition(s). On a UEFI-GPT system, BIOS doesn't show the boot able drives on the boot priority list. I have attached below a screenshot of the current partitions on both SSD and HDD I'm not sure what the first partition on the SSD is and whether it should be a boot sector - but either way it's not being detected in current BIOS.ĭoes anyone know of a single tutorial here that addresses this issue, or do I need to try and pull together different threads to address my specific issue (which I'm finding hard to do at the moment)?

When I do the clean install I want to make sure that BIOS recognises the SSD. However, the SSD is not showing in the BIOS boot priority menu, so I cannot set SSD to default. Windows is currently installed on the SSD (which I added myself), but on booting there are two OS options (see below) as the boot manager seems to think that the old HDD OS is still installed. I want to install Windows 10 on the SSD (M.2 2280 PCIE NVMe) and leave the HDD for storage only. I need to do a clean Windows 10 install on my laptop (I want to sell it, and therefore need to disassociate my Windows account with the OS installation).

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