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That'll prevent this being an issue in future, and for future installs of Windows.

Confirm this message, and then ensure that the EFI system partition, possibly a "recovery" partition, and the partition you just tried to create are all on the same 500GB ssd.Īt this point, as long as all of those are on the same drive, you can select your newly created large partition and hit next. You should get a message saying windows will make extra partitions to function properly. Try to create a partition on the 500gb SSD covering the whole drive. Erase all partitions off the 500GB SSD so that it shows nothing but "unallocated space".Ĥ. Be careful not to delete the data partition on that disk, only the EFI partition which is 100MB in size.ģ. When you get to the partition selection page, delete the EFI system partition on the 3TB disk listed as "Disk 2" in your above screenshot. Boot the windows installer as you did previously (either dvd or usb, whichever is easier for you).Ģ. In your case, reinstalling and sorting this issue permanently would involve doing the following steps now:ġ. This happened because Windows detected the EFI partition on Disk 2 during install, and used that as it's default boot configuration data store. To prevent this in future, remove any non-data partitions from the drives you do NOT want windows on.

If your hard drive dies or is removed, your SSD will become unbootable without being regenerated, which is hard to do when the system is already configured like this.

Windows will automatically use the same bootloader if another install is already present, meaning that you're stuck now with your hard drive containing your boot order. The reason this happened is that you installed Windows when there was already a disk installed in the machine set as a "system" drive, with an EFI partition. Now that I've included that information on what you need to do to fix this, I'd like to answer one of your main questions from your post.