Rough Time with BootIt UEFI and Windows 10
Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2022 4:47 am
Long time BING and BIBM User/Abuser
Thoroughly frustrated UEFI wannabe. I've got to be doing something wrong as I've read of others having success with UEFI and Windows 10. Lots of you
I've finally upgraded from my FX-8350 and equally seasoned Asus M5A97 from 1814...er, I mean 1914...2014. The years sure whiz by.
Anyway, new Asus ROG Strix B550A and Ryzen 5 5600x. Was trying to install Win10 fresh to my SSD from my old computer, keep the old Win10 data on there in it's partition, wipe out BIBM and install UEFI. All that went fine. UEFI install. Things got changed to GPT and BIU would be fine. Trying to install Windows is another proposition. There must be something in the UEFI BIOS or something I didn't set when making the BIU boot stick.
Here's the gist of what's happened over and over and over...(definition of insanity???)
Only SSD and BIU flash drive and W10 flash drive are connected.
Trying to install Windows 10 (I've viewed this video https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/video ... Ubuntu.wmv and read the manual, too):
"Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation. To install Windows, restart the installation."
"The partitions on the disk selected for installation are not in the recommended order...etc.." Click okay anyway. It starts to install, fails. Restart installation and delete the main partition and it runs all the way through all the check points of install and then says it can't reboot the computer: "Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation. To install Windows, restart the installation." I run startup repair and it can't find any problems, it doesn't have anything to run on/against.
I swap out stick o ram and try different bank just in case it's hardware.
Boot Windows Setup again.
Now there are 2x 100MB System Partitions. One each from each attempted installation.
Drive 0 Part 1 100MB System
Part 2 16MB MSR (Reserved)
Part 3 same as 1
Part 4 931GB Primary
Deleting all, again.
Click next so Win10 can work it's magic. Fails...Windows could not prepare the computer to boot...restart installation.
Tried creating 931GB manually and it blows up
Error: 0x80300024
Delete the new 100MB again Click next so Windows can create the 931GB again. Letting it ride in case it was the RAM or the slots? Immediately before it can finish...finishing up: Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into....
Delete, delete, delete, reboot, retry BIU, retry Win10. Same as above repeats.
Tried using a brand new SSD (borrowed from work for the trial) and only used W10 installation media. Worked like a charm. Figured, okay, well, probably something wrong with my old ssd, though chkdsk showed no bad sectors or anything wrong.
Went to Microcenter and bought my own new ssd (got an M.2). Installed it. Things are working fine. I install BIU and go to install Win10 and all the same stuff happens with the brand new M.2 as with the old SSD.
What simple thing am I ignorant of...or two things!!!
Thoroughly frustrated UEFI wannabe. I've got to be doing something wrong as I've read of others having success with UEFI and Windows 10. Lots of you
I've finally upgraded from my FX-8350 and equally seasoned Asus M5A97 from 1814...er, I mean 1914...2014. The years sure whiz by.
Anyway, new Asus ROG Strix B550A and Ryzen 5 5600x. Was trying to install Win10 fresh to my SSD from my old computer, keep the old Win10 data on there in it's partition, wipe out BIBM and install UEFI. All that went fine. UEFI install. Things got changed to GPT and BIU would be fine. Trying to install Windows is another proposition. There must be something in the UEFI BIOS or something I didn't set when making the BIU boot stick.
Here's the gist of what's happened over and over and over...(definition of insanity???)
Only SSD and BIU flash drive and W10 flash drive are connected.
Trying to install Windows 10 (I've viewed this video https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/video ... Ubuntu.wmv and read the manual, too):
"Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation. To install Windows, restart the installation."
"The partitions on the disk selected for installation are not in the recommended order...etc.." Click okay anyway. It starts to install, fails. Restart installation and delete the main partition and it runs all the way through all the check points of install and then says it can't reboot the computer: "Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation. To install Windows, restart the installation." I run startup repair and it can't find any problems, it doesn't have anything to run on/against.
I swap out stick o ram and try different bank just in case it's hardware.
Boot Windows Setup again.
Now there are 2x 100MB System Partitions. One each from each attempted installation.
Drive 0 Part 1 100MB System
Part 2 16MB MSR (Reserved)
Part 3 same as 1
Part 4 931GB Primary
Deleting all, again.
Click next so Win10 can work it's magic. Fails...Windows could not prepare the computer to boot...restart installation.
Tried creating 931GB manually and it blows up
Error: 0x80300024
Delete the new 100MB again Click next so Windows can create the 931GB again. Letting it ride in case it was the RAM or the slots? Immediately before it can finish...finishing up: Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into....
Delete, delete, delete, reboot, retry BIU, retry Win10. Same as above repeats.
Tried using a brand new SSD (borrowed from work for the trial) and only used W10 installation media. Worked like a charm. Figured, okay, well, probably something wrong with my old ssd, though chkdsk showed no bad sectors or anything wrong.
Went to Microcenter and bought my own new ssd (got an M.2). Installed it. Things are working fine. I install BIU and go to install Win10 and all the same stuff happens with the brand new M.2 as with the old SSD.
What simple thing am I ignorant of...or two things!!!