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I am doing a clean install of Windows 8.1 on an old PC. It was purchased as download from Microsoft Store and written to and booted from a USB flash drive.
It went through all of these steps:
- Copying Windows Files
- Getting files ready for installation
- Installing features
- Installing updates
Then at "Getting finished" I am stuck at this stupid dialog box.
Please unplug the following external drive and click OK to restart your computer and finish installing Windows.
F:
How do I tell what physical drive this is? Can I drop to command prompt during installation? And is it safe to unplug it while powered on?
There is no external hard drive connected, none that I can see. There is no USB or FireWire drive connected externally. I think it sees one of the internal drives as external... in some weird way?!
Press Shift+F10 to bring up a command prompt, type the following command, and post here the output:
wmic logicaldisk get caption,filesystem,size,volumename
– and31415 – 2014-05-28T09:28:57.613@and31415 Thanks! It's getting devices ready now. The problem was the USB flash drive that I used to boot and install the system from. The main problem was figuring out which one is the F drive. You can post your comment as an answer, I can update it with the output from the wmic command. – Samir – 2014-05-28T09:39:13.387