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I'm trying to install Windows back on my computer. But when I boot from my USB containing windows and I come to the point to format my drive, I can't because it's not in a NTFS format or something.

I have two drives, one SSD and one for bulking files. The SSD is the one holding the OS and needs to be wiped and replaced with windows. The other drive I have all backup stuff on, so I don't want to erase that.

How can I go about this? All guides suggest I should be able to format my drive and install from the Windows USB, but in my case I can't.

Knut
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    This is a windows related question. Your problem is with formatting a disk to NTFS. " and I come to the point to format my drive, I can't because it's not in a NTFS format or something. " No, you are trying to -install- windows on a not-NTFS system, that is when you get an error notice. Formatting is always possible. – Rinzwind May 31 '16 at 14:46

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Use GParted to wipe your SSD and format it as NTFS first and then install Windows.

Gparted runs live off a USB stick and has a very nice graphical interface for partitioning and formatting drives. Download GParted ISO, burn to bootable USB, and boot from USB.

My experience of Windows disk manager is that it's very limited. So I imagine that the Windows boot drive's partitioning function is also.

wpbdry
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