Help installing windows 8

So I received my Y500 yesterday. I removed my 1TB HDD and replaced it with a SSD. It took me a day to find a bootable ISO (windows 8 non-pro / enterpirse). I'm booting of the USB, however I run into this error when trying to install.

"We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information, see the Setup log files."

Anyone know why this is happening? I've found some posts for commands using command line, but still having this problem. Any help would be appreciated because this is driving me nuts. The SSD shows on BIOS and so does the 16gb. Do I need to remove the connection for the 16gb? If so, how do I go about doing this.

 

As general good-practice, you want to always do an OS install with only that single drive plugged in. Remove your mSATA drive, and leave it removed until you're done with the re-install. The reason is because a clean Windows installation will always store boot & recovery information onto the "first" disk in the system (Disk0). If you have multiple drives installed in your system, you run the risk of having the Windows installer put this boot & recovery information onto a different drive than your actual Windows install. The workaround to this inconvenience is to have only one drive plugged in when you do a Windows install, so that you force it to put both the boot/recovery information & the Windows isntall itself onto one drive.

As for the "Can't create a new partition" problem... if it still happens even after you unplug your mSATA drive, then remove the USB flash drive when you encounter that error message during the Windows install process, plug it into a different USB port, and then click Next. This is the first computer where I've run into that problem before, but I got around it by moving the USB flash drive to a different USB port. It's quirky, but it's also related to what the Windows installer considers to be the "first" disk in the system.

 

I decided to give up on the clean install this morning. I've tried everything I can think of and everything I read so far. So I decided to pop the original hd and create a recovery USB and then pop in the ssd and have windows recover on to it. Seems like he only solution as of right now. If anyone else has other suggestions, my ears are open.

Kent another question, would it be worth while for me to upgrade the msata if I have the 500gb ssd?