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Sorry for starting a new thread, but here we go... I was trying to install Windows 10 on my new laptop using a bootable USB. I set the USB as the primary boot device in the BIOS, kicked off the installation, and then hit an error when it came time to pick a partition. It wouldn't let me install to any of them. After some Googling, I figured out I had to move the USB from the top priority, set the hard drive as the primary boot instead, and just enable F12 so I could manually trigger the USB boot when needed. Then I had to wipe the drive via Command Prompt. Once I restarted the install, all I saw were two partitions—one at 500MB and one at 931GB. I couldn't create any more partitions; the whole drive was just one giant block. So, I just installed Windows on that main partition, everything seemed fine, and then I used Disk Management to shrink the volume down to 449GB to make room for a new D🙂 drive of about 464GB. I'm a bit confused though—why couldn't I just shrink the C🙂 partition further during the initial setup? There's 98% free space on it, so I could have easily cut it in half since I don't need that much room for the OS itself.
Anyone know a better way to do this, or did I mess up the installation process?
Anyone know a better way to do this, or did I mess up the installation process?