I've been trying to install Windows 10 Pro on the Dell OEM SK Hynix mSATA 256GB SSD which is integrated on the motherboard as a standalone drive (I plan to add a couple of 2TB Seagate drives back in later in a RAID 1 array but for now will just be using the Hynix SSD as the sole boot drive). The BIOS sees it just fine and I'm using a USB flash drive created with the Windows MCT with the latest version of Win 10 Pro to boot & install from. Windows sees the (unpartitioned) drive and starts to install normally but no files are ever copied and eventually it just poops-out with the error message "Setup was unable to create a new system partition". I then cancel the install but when I go back (this is without rebooting) to do another install this time there is no drive present whatsoever. After I reboot, Windows sees the SSD again with no problem and the 2 normal partitions which Windows usually creates during the install process, the main one containing Windows and the usual 500MB secondary one with the ancillary Windows files on it. If I try to do another install (without deleting the partitions Windows created the 1st time) it times-out again with the same message and 0% of the files copied. If I delete the partitions and start fresh the same thing happens again. I always thought that a SSD was treated (& recognized) just like a standard SATA hard drive, at least in standalone mode (recall that I do not have the other Seagate SATA drives connected to the system). Any info about what's going wrong will be greatly appreciated...
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