Problems installing Windows on a laptop. What to do?

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ArtiOnMoon2020-01-02 00:05:28

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ArtiOnMoon, 2020-01-02 00:05:28

SSD and installed in a Toshiba C850-C5K laptop, and put the screw on a sled instead of ODD. The SSD is visible in the system and BIOS, but when trying to install Windows on the SSD, it gives the following error: "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. Your computer hardware may not support booting from this disk. Make sure that the controller for this disk is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu." At first I thought that everything would be solved by changing the controller mode in the BIOS from ACHI to IDE, but it did not help. I went ahead and tried converting the SSD to mbr, but that didn't work. I updated the BIOS, but UEFI did not appear. There is no result. I rewrote windows to another USB flash drive in a homemade way via UltraIso instead of the standard WIndows bootloader. Nothing. I remembered that I have a similar ssd with windows in my desktop computer and decided to put it in a laptop, however, this time the laptop refused to see windows on the SSD. That is, he sees the ssd itself, but windows cannot boot with an error: "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press any key"
In the BOOT section, the SSD is the first device. No idea what to do to put Windows on an SSD?

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Viktor, 2020-01-02
@nehrung

Are you trying to install Win10? If so, and if your SSD is partitioned as MBR, then take into account that "ten" requires you to partition the disk as GPT, it does not like MBR, and its installer responds to slipping a disk with MBR with exactly the same diagnostic message as you wrote. For Win7, Win8.1 there was no such restriction.
You can convert from MBR to GPT and vice versa (without losing information) with any advanced partition manager, for example, Paragon or AOMEI.
By the way, you can still install Win10 on the MBR, you just need to shake the tambourine a little.

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15432, 2020-01-02
@15432

The forum offers to reinitialize the MBR
(all actions are carried out from the Win10 installation flash drive)
press shift + f10; a command prompt windows will pop up.
type 'diskpart' and press enter.
type 'list disk' and press enter.
look for the ssd in the list.
you should see a disk number identifying it.
now type 'select disk x' ; x being the number identifying your ssd. and press enter.
type 'clean' and press enter; this will write a blank MBR.