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SSD unusable after deleting windows 7
Hey,
Yesterday I bought Windows 8 after getting my brand new Intel 120 GB SSD. I purchased and downloaded the Windows 8 Pro upgrade, and I made the download program install it on my USB stick so I could boot from there.
As soon as I started installing, I picked my new SSD as OS-disk, instead of the 500 GB HDD I used for Windows 7. After the installation was done, I found out that Windows 7 was still bootable.
I read a guide on overclock.net saying that I could prevent my SSD from being cluttered with files, so I followed the guide and tried to make my "Users" folder being run from the 500 GB HDD. After following the guide, I tried to log into my account and it said "User Account Service unavailable", and I was unable to login. I read abotu it on the internet and they said a reinstall was the only possibility.
After re-installing it, everything worked again. I tried to delete the "Windows" folder on my old 500 GB HDD, which wasn't possible. I used EaseUS Partition Manager to format the whole drive, after backing it all up. Then I tried to start my PC again, but it keeps saying the following:
"Reboot and Select proper Boot device,
or Insert Boot Media in selected BOot device and press a key".
Seeing this, I thought I'd do a good job formatting my SSD and trying to re-install Windows 8. I tried this, but it totally didn't work out. It keeps saying the SSD is locked or something, and I can't use it to install Windows on.
The message that appears:
"You can't create a new systempartition and there's no existing system partition found. See setup logfiles for more info". (Translated from Dutch)
I have no idea where to locate those logfiles, and I'm pretty lost.
I have 3 physical drives, a 500 GB HDD, 2TB HDD and a 120 GB SSD, and the 2TB and the 120 GB one say "Primary", while the 500 GB says "Logical", and I don't really understand this.
Anyone who can help me so I can use my PC again?