I'm having trouble with my Windows installation via USB freezing consistently at 10%. Here's my setup: I'm running an AMD Ryzen 5 9600X processor on an MSI PRO B840M-B motherboard, with 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a ZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics card. My storage is a new Western Digital GREEN SN3000 2TB NVMe SSD.
The issue started after a power failure caused my PC to stop booting. It looks like Windows got corrupted, and when I tried to reinstall using Windows Media Tool, it never goes beyond 10%. I've played around in BIOS, but it can't seem to detect the graphics card properly in UEFI mode anymore, and it only detects it in Legacy + UEFI mode, which leads to crashes during installation.
I have done a lot of troubleshooting, including Safe Mode and legacy boot options, but nothing seems to work. My SSD is set to GPT and has been cleaned, and while BIOS doesn't indicate any problems, I can't shake the feeling the SSD might be faulty. Any ideas on what I can do next? I've been stuck on this for a couple of days and could really use some advice!
2 Answers
It sounds like you might have a defective M.2 drive. If you have access to an old SATA drive, try removing your current drives and booting with just that for testing. It could help isolate whether the M.2 is causing the issue. A faulty M.2 can mess with the whole installation process! Good luck!
You might want to consider flashing your BIOS to the latest version. Sometimes, older BIOS versions can cause these kinds of installation issues. If you can get the update onto a USB, you should be able to do it directly from the BIOS, even if you can't get into Windows.
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