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[Madoink]

It’s only the drive 1 partitions, drive 0 is your data drive.

If there’s no option to delete them then it does suggest an issue with the drive and that it’s write locked. Very unusual on a Samsung drive.

When I click on them all it says, windows cant be installed on drive

 

[SpyderTracks]

When I click on them all it says, windows cant be installed on drive

Yeah, you don't install to a partition, you delete all partitions and install to the free space.

 

[Madoink]

Yeah, you don't install to a partition, you delete all partitions and install to the free space.

Drive 1 unallocated space, I try to install it gives me 0x80300024

 

[SpyderTracks]

Drive 1 unallocated space, I try to install it gives me 0x80300024

Yep, so that suggests it's write locked.

 

[Madoink]

Yep, so that suggests it's write locked.

Do you think I should call up pc specialist tomorrow and see if they would take it in for repair?

 

[SpyderTracks]

Do you think I should call up pc specialist tomorrow and see if they would take it in for repair?

There’s no need, you can just RMA the drive, no need to send the whole thing in.

 

[Madoink]

There’s no need, you can just RMA the drive, no need to send the whole thing in.

I'm really not confident with taking apart my pc

 

[SpyderTracks]

I'm really not confident with taking apart my pc

Don't need to, just remove the drive itself, you don't need to remove anything else.

But it's up to you.

But if you're going to have a custom PC, this is totally standard stuff you're going to have to know how to do regularly. So you may as well start learning now.

If you RMA the drive, they send a replacement next day for you to fit. Takes about 5 minutes to slot in, just like fitting a RAM DIMM.

Then just install windows and you're good to go.

Again, this is total basics. You're going to HAVE to know how to do all this stuff, it will happen regularly.