#windows 10 installer is not detecting my ssd

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old thunder
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Hey, @narrow yarrow I think I might know the cause: Your SSD may be formatted with MBR partition, whereas it should be GPT in order to install windows. Ideally it should at least detect the SSD and show a warning message, but since you mentioned that it runs with ubuntu so I think that might be the case.

old thunder
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The detection is because of software issue, not hardware issue, so it should detect it.

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so go to your windows boot media (boot from it)

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on the installation screen, click repair my computer

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then type these commands in your cmd

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  1. DiskPart (press enter)
  2. list disk (press enter and identify the size of your disk and correspond to the disk number, also check if detects the same.)
  3. Type this: select disk X (X is the disk number which you wanna select)
  4. clean (press enter)
  5. convert gpt (press enter)
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and that should do it

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you can dm me if you need additional help. I'll try my best to assist you.