Error: "We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information, see the Setup log files." when you try to install Windows 8 (CP)

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03/06/2012

Symptom:

You try to install Windows 8 (CP), and encountered the following error:

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

Resolution:

Try to following methods:

1)Check if you have an SD Card in the system. If you do, you remove it and run setup again.

2) Once the setup fails to find the partition, just close the setup window (the top-right-hand side red X does the job).

From that point, you should be brought back at the initial setup screen.Choose "Repair" then go to the advanced tools and start the command line.

Start DISKPART.

Type LIST DISK and identify your SSD disk number (from 0 to n disks).

Type SELECT DISK <n> where <n> is your SSD disk number.

Type CLEAN

Type CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

Type ACTIVE

Type FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK

Type ASSIGN

Type EXIT twice (one to get out of DiskPart, the other to exit the command line tool)

Comments

Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Works beautiful! I installed, reinstalled, crashed, and reinstalled windows 8 trying to experiment with its stability. This trick worked beautiful. Thanks a bunch man!
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
thanks dawg.. yu save my life.. :v my computer life of course.. :')
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
it worked for me thanks. but after removing all my other drives and keeping only the SSD for the installation.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
ThanksDisabling other harddrives did the trick for me
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Thanks for the help. Your solution worked perfectly for me.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Same here, unplug your microSD! I went thru the entire diskpart process 4 times (about 5 hours each) until I figured it out...
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
I cannot thank you enough for this post. I had to rebuild a Lenovo Thinkstation D20 with Server 2012 after a catastrophic failure and was running into this problem. Like many of you after running the Diskpart I to found that I still could not access the drive but after disconnecting the other HDD's present it ran in fine. It has taken me all day but I am finally there. You learn something everyday as well as learning from your mistakes. Mine? don't install two VM applications onto one machine. It does not like it and you have to rebuild the thing form scratch.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
The step by step instructions at the top of the page are good but for those who have never used dos or the command window before this above is more an installation for dummies like me lol. I followed the instructions but also removed one of my drives, started the installation, when the drive window came up I had Disk0 Unallocated, DON'T FORMAT HERE click next and off it will go with the installation.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
It worked for me....

Note down Igor's comment here.... Be careful while executing clean.If you have single disk and previously created multiple logical drive that contains any data... Everything will get clean and you will loos all the data.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
This solution also works if you come to, to delete all partitions on Acer Iconia 500W when installing Windows 8 Pro.It seems also strange that it is not possible to create new partitions using wondows 8 Pro!/ Martin
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Do u have Win 7? if so re-install that and do an upgrade to Win 8, that would install with your SD card
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
If this is for a SSD, you can add the assignment in CREATE - like this: Create partition primary align=1024 And the ASSIGN command is not really required.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Unfortunately Win 8 is a bit tricky, it doesn't like having a second HDD in the PC nor does it like SD cards, without a CD ROMyour pretty much up the preverbial creek without a paddle , I don't know. Perhaps try waiting until it has loaded all the setup files from the SD card and take it out until it gets past the partitioning section but I'd be inclined to go and splash out $10 on a CD-ROM till u get it working, u can pick them up second hand for next to nothing now or borrow one, I have half a dozen here if u were close u could have one, lol. sorry I'm not being much help but with out the correct input hardware I don't know what else u can do
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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Anonymous
January 01, 2003
set installation TARGET media as primary host in bios (works with SSD targets).njoy
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Hello, I have a problem when installing windows 8. I try to create a new partition but It shows me this message img.laoupload.com/.../21164082126253975934.jpg I have already deleted my old windows.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Thanks for this I had the same problem on one of my systems with a SSD after a secure wipe with DBAN. I decided to re-document it with screenshots:
http://dellwindowsreinstallationguide.com/we-couldnt-create-a-new-partition-or-locate-an-existing-one-for-more-information-see-the-setup-log-files/
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
For me this didn't work when using an USB 3.0 thumb drive to install Win7 Sp1. The only solution was the burn a bootable DVD and here the setup worked without any issues.
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
lol yep that does the trick
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
I had 4 partitions it showes me just the full one ... i dnt want to format all my hard disk ... wat can i do ???
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
If your using a HDD that has had an OS installed before, when you look at the partitions on the drive you will see your main partition 200GB or what ever and a small partition 100MB, previous OS only allocate a 100MB partition for the small drive where as Win 8 needs 300MB, I tried deleting all partitions and re allocating the small partition as a larger drive but that didn't work either, so tried the method above and it worked beautifully
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
thanks
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
Diskpart worked first time i tried Win10. Next time around I had to do as:
" darekjk 18 Oct 2012 5:29 PM

I had to install the windows boot loader before setup.

So, run cmd and run (you can do it in repair tools on install disk):

bootrec /fixmbr

bootrec /fixboot

restart and run install again"
Anonymous
March 06, 2012
Thanks for the tip, I tried this, but I still receive the same error when trying to install to this drive. Any other suggestions?
Anonymous
March 06, 2012
I was able to get it working by disabling all USB ports within the BIOS, as well as all of the SATA ports.
Anonymous
March 08, 2012
Don't disable your USB ports in the BIOS unless you have an old PS/2 Keyboard. Otherwise you won't be able to get back into the BIOS as you will have no keyboard to trigger BIOS configuration. \\\\\ FIX for Installing Windows 8 Consumer Preview on Intel SSD 520 Motherboard Intel DG965WH Make sure AHCI is enabled and <<<DISABLE S.M.A.R.T >> en.wikipedia.org/.../S.M.A.R.T I had previously followed the procedure above in DISKPART, so don't know if that was required. /////////////////////
Anonymous
April 11, 2012
Above procedure worked for me. Don't think my original partition was marked as primary.
Anonymous
May 11, 2012
careful! it will destroy all data on yout hard disk!!
Anonymous
June 01, 2012
I confirm removing the optional SD card on Acer Iconia Tab W500 fix the issue: "We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information, see the Setup Log Files." and install correctly Windows 8 Release Preview Cheers!
Anonymous
June 01, 2012
This worked for me on an SSD main drive.
Anonymous
June 01, 2012
Hey zap, I am putting it on my W500 today also :)
Anonymous
June 01, 2012
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Anonymous
June 03, 2012
Thanks so much this just worked for me!
Anonymous
June 03, 2012
Just wanted to leave a note here: I had to unplug my other hard disk for some reason. I had 2 disks my *nix disk and this testing disk for windows. I unplugged my *nix disk so the only disk in the computer was this one, and viola. It works. Hope this helps someone. Good luck.
Anonymous
June 25, 2012
This worked for me: I simply went into the bios and disabled all other HDDs apart from my primary SSD.
Anonymous
August 07, 2012
Thanks so much thi just worked with me !!!
Anonymous
August 13, 2012
I had this error on RTM with the combination of Intel 310SSD and Kingston DataTraveler Elite 3.0 USB stick. When I used Kingston DT Ultimate G2 as installation media (exact same files, just bootsect'd the drive), it came through ok. The error in the setup log (x:windowspanthersetuperr.log) was 06069e IBC GetMachineInfo Couldn't find boot disk on this BIOS based computer.
Anonymous
August 15, 2012
Worked great for me, had a microSD card plugged into a memory card reader. Cleaned and reformatted the drive with diskpart as per the instructions, and installing now. Thanks for the concise post :)
Anonymous
August 26, 2012
Acer Iconia Tab W500 problem solved by removing SD card :) simples...tahnk you very much.
Anonymous
September 08, 2012
Fixed this error by changing the order of the hard disks in BIOS for boot priority. Tried the fix above - didn't work. Moved the RAID hard disk (which I was installing to) up the list from 4th to 1st. Worked. Was installing Windows Storage Server 2012.
Anonymous
September 09, 2012
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Anonymous
September 13, 2012
Solved this problem by removing USB 3.0 bluray and booted with a USB 2.0 DVD drive instead. It seems best to avoid USB 3.0 ports.
Anonymous
September 26, 2012
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Anonymous
October 13, 2012
Thanks for the TIP. It proved quite useful and worked for my situation alone. I only had to do the Diskpart and they Windows 8 Enterprise Installed just fine.
Anonymous
October 14, 2012
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Anonymous
October 18, 2012
I had similar problem with windows 2012 - I had linux partition on disk and GRUB2 as boot loader. I had to install the windows boot loader before setup. So, run cmd and run (you can do it in repair tools on install disk): bootrec /fixmbr bootrec /fixboot restart and run install again
Anonymous
October 20, 2012
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Anonymous
October 26, 2012
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Anonymous
October 27, 2012
disconnect all hard drives, leave only one to install w8. it worked for me. after installation connect back.
Anonymous
October 27, 2012
One further reason for this error: You're using a SD-Card reader for your USB Stick installation, which isn't fully compatible with the card and protocol given. You can create the bootable stick. In my example it was a Kingston 8GB microsd with the 'red' Kingston stickreader buyed for a 2GB card. As soon as I used the black Kingston reader of a 32GB card, it worked.
Anonymous
October 27, 2012
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Anonymous
October 28, 2012
Was installing Win 8 from a flashdrive in a usb 3.0 port, to my ssd. Coudn't get it to work, until i tried this :-)
Anonymous
October 28, 2012
Thank you dude for the instructions, I panicked when I couldn't get any further having just wiped everything. I had a 4gb SD card in the card reader, removed it but it still wouldn't continue on my Acer W500. Did your DISKPART steps, and restarted the tablet and install process, it picked up immediately afterwards. Now installing - phew! Thanks again.
Anonymous
October 28, 2012
I get a "the disk you specified is not valid" probably just me but I need to get this working please help
Anonymous
October 29, 2012
I tried your method and I'm still getting an error, the same one. Any other ideas? Here is a copied post from a post I made on another website [align=center]Ok, i am sorry this isn't that pretty of a post, I'm doing this on my IPAD So anyways, I need help installing windows 8 pro x86 After getting past language, the key, and other things, I stumble across where and how I want to install, I click advanced, click on the only hard drive available in the list, which is my internal, click next. And it gives me an error saying "we cannot create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more info please see the setup log files." Since I don't have any os on my Alienware m15x, I can't view log files I've looked up creating partitions, etc. and still get the same error. By the way my internal hdd is named drive 0 partition 1 according to the windows 8 Setup. So can someone guide me through this before I rage all over it? I'll rep all I got if I can get this working to anyone who comments with support. And another thing, the "new" button by drive options advanced is not highlighted, but format, delete, and loa d driver is. Any possible help appreciated Thanks in advance Well some of it is for the other site but it gives a better understanding of my issue. Thanks
Anonymous
October 29, 2012
I had 2 hard disks and then I just unplugged the other one and it worked flawlessly.
Anonymous
October 31, 2012
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Anonymous
October 31, 2012
I had the same issue's, all you need to do: set the drive you want Windows on as the first boot drive in BIOS, it's works, try it.
Anonymous
November 01, 2012
I tried the recommended steps but that didn't work. Then i read someone's post about unpluggging all HD's. That did the trick. Just had Win8 installer on USB stick and SSD plugged in. Now it's installing...finally!
Anonymous
November 01, 2012
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Anonymous
November 04, 2012
Thanks This Article help me install my new Windows 8.
Anonymous
November 05, 2012
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Anonymous
November 09, 2012
This thing cleaned my whole disk and ive lost all my data thats just great.
Anonymous
November 15, 2012
Same. Removing everything except my USB and hdd didn't fix it. Neither did disk part. Microsoft tech support told me to "call your manufacturer and tell them to send you a basic drivers disk. "Fail!
Anonymous
November 18, 2012
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Sorry my capslock is not broken but I just destroyed about 10 hours trying to install Win8 from USB Stick and had an SD Card installed. You are great - now it is working :-)
Anonymous
November 28, 2012
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Anonymous
December 05, 2012
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Anonymous
December 06, 2012
You ***. Just managed to wipe OS X. Cheers for the warning?????
Anonymous
December 09, 2012
so... what about if i use netbook , no dvd rom there , i use USB to install windows 8... so i can not install windows 8 via USB meant ?
Anonymous
December 16, 2012
Thanx for this tip - DISKPART solution worked for me!
Anonymous
December 24, 2012
Only worked after disabling AHCI, and setting disk to IDE mode.
Anonymous
January 06, 2013
Will this procedure wipes of all the in the hard disk????
Anonymous
January 06, 2013
Will this procedure wipes of all the data in the hard disk???
Anonymous
January 29, 2013
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Anonymous
February 03, 2013
I tried every other fix and it didn't work. (IDE vs AHCI) and manual DISKPART CLEAN etc, nothing worked I tried FOUR different USB drives, and the 4th one worked. (no change to anything else) I created each one via the Windows 7 Microsoft usb boot utility creator.
Anonymous
February 06, 2013
Everyone who is complaining that they wiped they're hard drive using this is an idiot. If you don't understand what something is doing maybe you should look it up before you do it. Or maybe you shouldn't be installing an OS on a computer if you don't even know basic DOS. It's no one's fault but your own that you're either too stupid or too lazy to actually research what you're doing to your computer.
Anonymous
February 11, 2013
I tried about 20 variations on this basic process but this is what I had to do. I have a regular PC with a SATA HDD. I was getting the error whether I formatted from repair or anything else. I tried creating many different partitions but nothing was working. I happen to be working with a Linux live CD and was able to diag a few things but even formatting to NTFS through this did not work. Finally in the Linux instance I crated a partition and copied the ISO contents to that partition on the HDD. I also made the partition bootable. I removed the USB I was using to install windows and rebooted. The files in the HDD caught and took me to the windows install. where it FINALLY completed successfully. Nathan
Anonymous
February 25, 2013
excellent, was struggling to install and chating with tech support, could not able to get answer, found your post helpful, i am installing windows 8 pro with bootcamp, during where to unstall it gave me this error, when i removed usd 3.0 and deleted partitions and and formated the partition and click on next, and then i have inserted the usd 3.0 works fine for me
Anonymous
February 25, 2013
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Anonymous
March 03, 2013
Thank you so much. That did the trick. Thank Windows for allowing quick cmd access again.
Anonymous
March 05, 2013
Pulled out the SD card and it worked next time round Cheers!
Anonymous
March 16, 2013
UNBELIEVABLE !!! It worked, before that I spent hours trying to install. I assumed it was my HDD had failed. Took out MicroSD card and installed win 8 straight away.
Anonymous
March 27, 2013
Read the disk part steps on another site, and no luck. On this page I saws the ad card warning, took out my sd card, and it worked completely fine
Anonymous
April 08, 2013
Wich part of "Type CLEAN" all you idiots didn't understood? All you got well served for being such morons.
Anonymous
April 25, 2013
This worked for me I also had a thumb drive plugged in with some raid drivers on it. but the drives were previously used for centos
Anonymous
April 25, 2013
This was installing server 2012 on a dell poweredge 1850
Anonymous
April 30, 2013
On Iconia, remove SD. Remove from Keyboard. Insert Mem Stick (With install files) into Centre USB Port. Worked for me.
Anonymous
May 19, 2013
BOOT PRIORITY! None of the fixes anywhere helped me with this, until I came across what I thought was the most useless answer in the world online. Basically, they said because the HD they were trying to install one wasn't listed first in the boot priority list in their BIOS, it wouldn't install. I did not believe this could be my issue, but in fact it was.
Anonymous
May 22, 2013
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Anonymous
June 04, 2013
Thank You Thank You, Your resolution solved my problem with windows 8 not seeing my SSD. All the other advice about drivers and setting to RAID did not work, but simply following your diskpart instructions worked perfectly. Thank You.
Anonymous
June 09, 2013
Simple and concise steps! Am able to install now! You rock.
Anonymous
June 22, 2013
same error different resolution: got the same error on a supermicro server (with supermicro MB and 2 Supermicro HBA cards) I solved the issue by disconnecting all HDD from the HBA cards. Really strange because windows 2012 didn't recognize the RAID cards anyway so not sure how it could see the HDDs.
Anonymous
July 07, 2013
i tried but i still get the error Virtual disk service error: clean is not allowed on the disk containing current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump, or hibernate volume
Anonymous
August 03, 2013
not sure if this was already in the post, but for me it was a bios setting: switch sata mode from IDE to AHCI
Anonymous
August 07, 2013
I can confirm physically removing drive 0 fixes it.
Anonymous
August 28, 2013
I tried this and its not working for me. Any ideas?
Anonymous
August 31, 2013
This worked like a charm! I had no OS installed because I accidentally deleted things I shouldn't have when updating to the Windows Blue 8.1 preview. Can't thank you enough, you saved me from sending in my computer to the manufacturer and going without it at school for 2-4 weeks!
Anonymous
September 26, 2013
SOLUTION

Connect only the drive you want to install Win 8 on, all others should be disconnected.
Do not use the win7 boot tool to create a bootable win 8 USB. Instead use that same tool to create a bootable win 8 DVD.
Boot from that DVD, you should have no troubles this time around. -- I use a primary SSD and a secondary HDD along with a few externals and NAS drives. I figured out that booting from the USB was causing the error to appear.

Anonymous
October 06, 2013
Tried a USB3 thumb drive ... no go. After trying everything else on this list finally tried switching to USB2 drive ... bingo.
Anonymous
October 07, 2013
Switching from a USB3.0 to USB2.0 thumb drive worked for me.
Anonymous
October 13, 2013
solo tiene que hacer la partición y luego apagar el computador y volver a empezar la instalación just have to make the partition and then turn off the computer and start the installation
Anonymous
October 18, 2013
Getting a Dual Layer DVD and burning the ISO worked for me.
Anonymous
November 05, 2013
All these guys are wrong. You need to select the disk you want to boot from as the primary boot drive in the bios. Then windows will install to it.
Anonymous
November 05, 2013
Those other things can coincidentally choose your main hard drive as the #1 boot priority but you really don't have to remove everything. Just select in bios the #1 boot priority as the drive you are trying to install windows to. So all those other things are really not necessary. They might get the boot priority to come up correctly but just select it the first time and you won't have to mess with it.
Anonymous
November 11, 2013
SUPERDELL thank you so much! tried everything but couldn't get past error. then adter your port checked the bios and saw that only boot option was the windows 8 usb drive. i added the hdd as the second boot drive and viola! finally over with this error :D
Anonymous
November 14, 2013
I have to take off all the other drives and leave the ssd then bingo start working. may this help to someone
Anonymous
November 14, 2013
I had same problem. In my system have 3 HDD's. I disconnect other 2 HDD s then no problem for installation.
Anonymous
November 22, 2013
In my case, changing the SATA operating mode to "AHCI" in the bios solved the issue.
Anonymous
November 22, 2013
Thank you very much. I try all the week to resolve that and get nothing. With this tutorial I get reinstall Windows in my PC. I lost some files that wasn't in my SkyDrive and mobile device, but that files wasn't so important. Thanks.
Anonymous
November 28, 2013
It works! The problem was the SD, I took and it worked without problems. Thx !
Anonymous
November 29, 2013
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Anonymous
December 06, 2013
Hi guys I had this problem on my Toshiba laptop. I found that windows 8 would not install from a USB3 device. I created a bootable win8 USB2 stick and installation worked with no problems.
Anonymous
December 10, 2013
Thanks for the post. The solution worked for me.
Anonymous
January 31, 2014
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Anonymous
February 01, 2014
Similar issues with dynamic disks...set as basic using diskpart and it worked
Anonymous
February 14, 2014
nothings gonna work at all -- trust me i know i did them all (i am a geek like that ) you have to have some unallocated space like 350MB or more at the beginning of the drive partition then leave that unallocated and proceed with the later larger drive just Bellow it (part of a same drive / partition ) install the windows as that space was unallocated so windows could not put any files there , so you can just download paragon partition manager 2014 free and marge that with your c with a little bit of time and you r good as new and happy
Anonymous
February 19, 2014
thanks a lot ! your a genius =)
Anonymous
March 03, 2014
Thank you, worked perfectly for me. I was trying to install windows 8 on a Kingston SSD.
Anonymous
March 17, 2014
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Anonymous
March 18, 2014
The error here has to do with the order of the disks. I removed my usb drive from one usb drive to another and things just started working. As long as i had my usd pen drive plugged to that first drive it kept throwing me this error. Everything else above is irrelevant.
Anonymous
March 31, 2014
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Anonymous
April 11, 2014
In my case - Windows insisted the install disk be first in boot order. Changed that and it installs.
Anonymous
April 14, 2014
This post helped immensely.
Anonymous
April 16, 2014
Will this delete my all user data?
Anonymous
April 20, 2014
If you have another HDD connected to the system, disconnect it, and leave only the main HDD where you want to install windows. This worked for me.
Anonymous
May 06, 2014
Thanks worked great for me!
Anonymous
May 06, 2014
Hi, I am running in the same problem. I tried everything stated. Disabling devices, diskpart etc.. Today i tested the following : I had 2 spare sata drives available (laptop). Installed windows 8 on 1 of the drives. No problem. Seemed there was all kind of old stuff on it, an wanted to start again. Booting, selecting the same partition where i already successfully installed windows 8, hit format, and clicked next showing me the error described. Now if i do not make any changes other then formatting the partition using windows, and then showing me the error, logic tells me the windows format during install messes up the drive. Again, i can not solve the problem anymore. Any suggestions ?
Anonymous
May 07, 2014
For you who are installing from a stick :

Perform the DISKPART as described, but only exit 1 time so that you are back in the command prompt.
COPY all content from your STICK to C: (in my case my USB Drive was D:)

Remove the stick and reboot

After installation you can remove the installation folders from your C: drive
Anonymous
May 08, 2014
wow it worked for me thanks alot
Anonymous
May 11, 2014
Thankyou looks like it worked.
Anonymous
May 11, 2014
tnkas i remove SD Card in the system. and run setup again.
and its worked
Anonymous
May 12, 2014
*** u
*** Microsoft

Now i have lost all my important data
Anonymous
May 12, 2014
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Anonymous
May 13, 2014
I had same problem, but the issue was combination sandisk x110 with kingston datatraveler 3.0 G2. I boot Windows 8 from DVD and everything is OK. Thanks for advice ;)
Anonymous
May 20, 2014
****** error disabling all disks helped me + did all the topic said and finnly after 3 hours of trying stuff started to install i was afried to unplug my raid 0 disk 2tbx2 and i have no where to backup my data untill i mange to just disable all disks from bios
Anonymous
May 23, 2014
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Anonymous
June 06, 2014
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Anonymous
June 06, 2014
This worked for me. I was switching from a previous RAID configuration to AHCI and got the "We couldn't create a new partition..." message. After using the DISKPART commands listed here Windows install worked. Thanks!

I also had a drive that was not even showing up in the list of available drives to install to. After using the DISKPART commands above, it showed up on the list as well.
Anonymous
June 08, 2014
yeah its worked me too... when these commands completed make reboot ur system. and then continue ur installation.
Anonymous
June 10, 2014
After 30 searches and 3 days trying to fix the same issue this was the simplest and had completed the new install in 5 minutes
thank you !!!!!!!
Anonymous
June 15, 2014
One thing that can cause this is if using a USB 3 flashdrive. Use a USB 2.0 and will work OK
Anonymous
June 24, 2014
Also try taking out any Cds in the disk drive.
Anonymous
June 25, 2014
Would clean command will erase the data in my hard disk
Anonymous
June 25, 2014
I appreciate your help @Nolan. I have added a new primary partition that Windows will now install you. Thank you sir.
Anonymous
June 25, 2014
Worked perfectly! thanks
Anonymous
June 30, 2014
we couldn t create a new partition or locate
Anonymous
July 04, 2014
I got this message:
Windows cannot be iinstalled to this disk. The selected diisk has an MBR partition
table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks.

Any resolution of this ?
Anonymous
July 16, 2014
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Anonymous
July 16, 2014
I had to unplug my usb drive and put it into the next usb slot when it happened, refreshed and clicked next to continue the setup process, it worked
Anonymous
July 17, 2014
For me the issue was the same as what I saw on a prior page, and was from using a Kingston Datatraveler 32 gig usb stick. When I changed to another stick, then it was fine.
Anonymous
July 21, 2014
Thanxxxx alotttttttttt
Otherwise my hd would be a garbage for me
Anonymous
July 25, 2014
lol @ the comment about loosing all your data. yeah format will do that.
Anonymous
August 06, 2014
Yea the CLEAN command cleared the partition. So I had to recover it. The solution turned out to be removing the other hard drive.
Anonymous
August 09, 2014
I was having this exact same problem, where the error message would appear despite having created a primary partition and formatted to the correct filesystem (it was also kind of picky about the disk being GPT, but whatever). Turns out that just creating the primary partition doesn't leave enough space on the drive to install windows, so you have to use the SHRINK command in DISKPART.
Anonymous
August 15, 2014
thank you so much!!! worked but I had to switch to AHCI as we'll
Anonymous
August 19, 2014
this solution worked for me ... thanks
Anonymous
August 19, 2014
Changing the type to primary fixed it for me.
Anonymous
August 21, 2014
This worked moving from Lubuntu to Win8.1 - Getting some partition (3 letters) error. DiskPart as shown here worked fine.
Asus N56V with Samsung EVO 250Gb
On the Asus remember to enter BIOS, go to Security and disable "secure boot", then go to Boot and enable "Launch CSM" - Reboot and now select your CD / USB drive under boot options.
Anonymous
August 24, 2014
Guys it is also worked for me , I also removed sata cable from second hard drive and only sas drives stayed in server and system can install. Thanks More
Anonymous
August 25, 2014
It finaly worked for me! After trying the same thing like 50 times. Can't really say what made it work this time. But I got to the point where it says "we couldn't create......"

Then I pulled my USB -stick (a 16GB Kingston Data Traveler btw).

From there I went in to

DISK PART
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK 0
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
ACTIVE
FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK
ASSIGN
EXIT
EXIT

When I came back I pressed refresh/update
STILL SAID "We couldn't create......"
Then I put the USB back in, hit refresh/update
and then voila!!

Thanks!
Anonymous
August 26, 2014
tried and after I did the first disk I went to start the second and the computer died...when I got it turned back on to be able to try and do the other disk it comes up"initializing and establishing link then says media test failure, check cable then exiting boot agent the operating system not found....its on the usb drive I have in ...anyhelp for this issue
Anonymous
August 27, 2014
If you get: No partition selected after ACTIVE then use SELECT PARTITION 1
Anonymous
September 06, 2014
Thank you sooooooo much. I felt like I tried everything!! This was the last thing I was going to try before I gave up!! Thanks!! :)
Anonymous
September 07, 2014
Totally Worked!!
Anonymous
September 12, 2014
When i installed this, i just markt my usb stick as first boot option and i had to use the tuch to install it, (did not work when i used the usb keyboard)
Hope this can help someone :)
Anonymous
September 14, 2014
I posted an easier solution..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpKcqcx2yDM
Anonymous
September 16, 2014
Great !!! it worked for me
Anonymous
September 25, 2014
its very helpful for meeeeee thanks alot
Anonymous
September 28, 2014
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Anonymous
October 02, 2014
Using a USB 3 key in a USB 2 port caused this issue for me....when used in the USB 3 port all worked as required!!!
Anonymous
October 02, 2014
Removing secondary drive worked for me for windows 10 preview. Thanks for the suggestion!
Anonymous
October 02, 2014
My HP workstation had BIOS set to Raid plus Ahci, changed it to Ahci only and it worked.
Anonymous
October 05, 2014
This worked for me. Even on T110 II with PERC S100 that is not supposed to support 2012 R2. I uploaded the driver form an USB did the DISKPART setup and worked great on next try.
Anonymous
October 08, 2014
This worked perfectly for me. Thank you so much.
Anonymous
October 09, 2014
Worked great with my Lenovo X240. Thank you
Anonymous
October 10, 2014
thanks very much
Anonymous
October 13, 2014
hi, after 4 hours of trying and trying, I've successfully passed this step.
For me the problem was the USB3.0 flashdrive(blue middle part) and the SSD. When I finally switched to a USB 2.0 flashdrive, the installation continued.
Additional info:
I used the Microsoft tool to create the bootable USB drive.
ACHI mode was enabled, and the partition was created and possibly formatted with diskpart, but I'm quite sure that the USB3.0 flashdrive was the problem.
Anonymous
October 14, 2014
I disabled all HDD in bios boot menu, so that only SSD was present. Then everything worked
Anonymous
October 19, 2014
For me the Issue was because of Kingston Pendrive, Kingston 100G3 (may be it is USB 3.0), I am able to install windows with DVD and as well as HP pendrive.
Anonymous
October 21, 2014
I simply changed the port the USB was in and it started the install fine. Very strange...
Anonymous
October 26, 2014
Dont use diskpart clean it will erase all your data without any message.
Take Care
Anonymous
October 26, 2014
It worked for me!! Thanks!
Anonymous
October 29, 2014
Thank you, my computer come back :D
Anonymous
October 30, 2014
Server 2012 R2 and two brand new Samsung EVO 840s via embedded RAID1 controller. Same error installing to RAID 1 logical disk. Did above procedure and also removed any backup disks currently connected. (no other usb/sd cards etc). This worked for me also.
Anonymous
November 03, 2014
Worked for me thanks for the info!
Anonymous
November 04, 2014
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Anonymous
November 10, 2014
I LOVE YOU! 'Cause it worked!
Anonymous
November 11, 2014
I had this issue on a PNY 240GB SSD. Following the procedure worked like a charm. Thanks TN!
Anonymous
November 18, 2014
Worked for me on my Acer Aspire 5920 laptop.
Anonymous
November 20, 2014
I followed the steps and re-fired up the install it worked great thank you for the help ;-)
Anonymous
November 23, 2014
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Anonymous
November 25, 2014
Sure
Anonymous
November 25, 2014
Sure
Anonymous
November 26, 2014
eject other removable devices...then try.....problem solved
Anonymous
November 28, 2014
Worked for me
Anonymous
November 30, 2014
Thanks a lot man it Works!!! :)
Anonymous
December 01, 2014
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Anonymous
December 07, 2014
For everyone that's using USB to install. When you get this error remove the USB try again and it'll fail. Plug the auSB back in the same socket and try again. It'll start installing on the HDD/SSD
Anonymous
December 08, 2014
The comments helped me more than the post itself but anyway thanks!
Anonymous
December 10, 2014
Make sure that the HD you're installing to is the first HD in your BIOS boot priority. Otherwise, the setup detects that the HD you're trying to install to won't be automatically booted and prevents you from installing on that drive. I'm not really sure why they couldn't provide you with a simple error message to that effect...
Anonymous
December 11, 2014
Will this diskpart procedure remove all data of my entire HDD, or from the drive that i select to install my windows?
Anonymous
December 13, 2014
What Dave above said. In my case I was installing from USB drive so had set that as first drive. After setting the target drive first and then using the BIOS boot utility to select the USB drive it worked fine.
Anonymous
December 15, 2014
Works on regular hard disks, helped me wipe and upgrade XP to Win 7 Pro - thanks!
Anonymous
December 23, 2014
This was fixed for me by disabling my other SATA slots. I had a second HDD attached, a 2.5 inch WD black, which I suspect is the cause of the problem. Once disabled, issue solved.
This was on a gigabyte Z8N-WIFI board, sandisk SSD for the primary drive, installing from a USB stick.
Anonymous
December 25, 2014
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Anonymous
December 27, 2014
for me I change the bios to UEFI only and change the disk to gpt instead of mbr. only then it let me install windows 8.1 pro from a usb drive
Anonymous
December 27, 2014
Not only SD cards are responsible for this issue. I used a sandisk USB thumb drive to setup windows 2012 r2, and had the same issue. Its a quite strange drive, because when plugging it in, windows recognizes it as a HDD, not a removable drive.
Anonymous
January 01, 2015
still same problem ... what to do??/
Anonymous
January 01, 2015
I tried this and it is still showing the same dialog.Im using a KINGSTON usb.Maybe this is the problem?
Anonymous
January 02, 2015
My solution was to use a CDROM instead of my USB 3.0 thumb drive.
Anonymous
January 03, 2015
Disabled S.M.A.R.T on AHCI within the bios did the trick for me!!
Anonymous
January 10, 2015
Help! When i sid this i still couldnt install Windows so Moe i have no operative system????
Anonymous
January 11, 2015
I had the same issue, but I changed the boot order in the BIOS and it worked. Glad I didn't had to format the drive.
Anonymous
January 22, 2015
worked for me
Anonymous
January 24, 2015
Thank you very much. I unplugged all of my other HDDs prior to the installation and left only my SSD connected (since I've had a very bad case of accidentally formatting one of my hard drives in the past with the Windows Setup).

I encountered this exact error, and I had the W8.1 setup burned onto a DVD. After following the instructions stated here, I was able to have W8.1 successfully installed to my SSD. Crisis averted :).

I did not need to do any BIOS setting changes. The SSD was a completely brand new Samsung 850 Pro.
Anonymous
January 25, 2015
moi c’était le 2 ème lecteur CD
Anonymous
January 29, 2015
For Me - it was the SATA port that i connected the target SSD drive with. I switched it from Sata port 2 --> Sata port 1 and the install proceeded.
Anonymous
February 13, 2015
thanks!!!! it worked like charm on iconia tab w501
Anonymous
February 15, 2015
Thanks so much! You're a life saver!
Anonymous
February 15, 2015
Chris's solution worked for me. Changed from a USB 3.0 stick to a 2.0. I am installing it on an older Asus netbook. Im sure booting from a DVD would work also but I didnt feel like burning a disk!
Anonymous
February 19, 2015
Tried everything here, and my problem was - Kingston Datatravel usb stick (with blue gum). Guys who told about it too, BIG THANKS! I bought new usb stick (adata) and problem was solved. So don't use Kingston Datatravel usb for this work.
Anonymous
February 25, 2015
Hi, I still face the issue after going through the all diskpart thing. I would really appreciate your advice.

Some background: I am trying to install windows 8.1 on a bootcamp partition created from my OS X (iMac). My drive is a fusion drive.

When I type 'disk list' I see 3 drives: disk 0 of 113Gb which doesn't correspond to the partition I created and 2 other disks both of 931Gb which seem to be the external hard drive I am using to install windows (after creating a windows image from OS X).
Then in the windows set up, I can hit 'next' after selecting this 'disk 0' of 113Gb. It is of type 'System' not 'Primary'. As I have no idea from where this disk comes from I didn't go further. I then tried to go back to OS X but I can't access ot anymore.

I hope I am clear. Thanks for your help!
Anonymous
March 02, 2015
I had to remove a SAS controller that was configured with a logical volume (hogging Disk0) before I could install 8.1 to my SSD.

All the rest of the advice here was good, but none of it worked.
Anonymous
March 14, 2015
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Anonymous
March 21, 2015
not work for me
Anonymous
March 23, 2015
Here it is 03/24/2015 and this help saved be. I did the following
Clean
AHCI
Disable SMART

Finally I'm installing.
Bob
Anonymous
March 27, 2015
I followed the original steps, downloading 8.1. I restarted my computer and the new error message is "an operating system wasnt found. try disconnecting any drives that dont contain an operating system." What just happened and any ideas to fix it? Thanks
Anonymous
April 03, 2015
THX so much. this is very helpful.....
Anonymous
April 04, 2015
Thanks! this worked for me on Windows 10 preview. It got me to the next step.
Anonymous
April 05, 2015
Thank you mate, you made my day, works perfectly, i guess someone in Microsoft couldn´t be bothered to program the bat. file in setup correctly to do these steps for us :)
Anonymous
April 10, 2015
thank you so much... its work
Anonymous
April 14, 2015
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Anonymous
April 29, 2015
@Franck from May 23, 2013. Thanks. That did the trick for me. I was installing from a USB 3 thumb drive to a SSD (had also tried to another regular hard drive) and it was failing. I did what you said. Try installing to hard drive listed. It fails. Remove thumb drive try again. It gives a different error message. Plug drive back in. Click refresh. Now try installing to hard drive again. It worked!!! Thanks again!
Anonymous
May 01, 2015
You have to delete all the option then you click New and divide again. (Delete Primary, System...) That's it.
Anonymous
May 03, 2015
unplug all other hhd's or ssd's but the one you are going to install windows on
Anonymous
May 05, 2015
Hi I want to find out how to format the HDD in F110, as it does not have an option in BIOS
Anonymous
May 07, 2015
@Chris, thanks for the USB 2.0 suggestion...that is what worked for me
Anonymous
May 11, 2015
Method 2 worked! thanks a lot
Anonymous
May 22, 2015
This is happening for Windows 10 installer, using the boot from pen drive and it doesnt work, i will try with a DVD Installation
Anonymous
May 27, 2015
Thanks man the first solution worked
Anonymous
May 28, 2015
Had the same issue, on the dell M3800 machine, changing USB options had no effect.

I had to hit F12 for boot options, then manually select UEFI Options: USB1 - Windows DVD(KingstonDataTraveler 30PMAP). The windows 8 Language selection screen (2nd setup screen) should show up in QuadHD resolution

I then had to manually partition, at which point windows creates a bunch of extra, Recover, System, MSR, and Primary partitions. After this things were fine.
Anonymous
May 30, 2015
Thank you worked for me too
Anonymous
May 30, 2015
I just disables another hdd on bios and all come back on fine. Thanks emzky
Anonymous
June 01, 2015
Thanks a billion, I struggled with this error for a long time! Thanks again, oh did I say thank you? well thank you.
Anonymous
June 01, 2015
Thank for your answers guys.
My problem solved with removing second HDD and trying to install windows.
Good luck.
Anonymous
June 06, 2015
hey thanks! that CMD code worked for me.
cheers
Anonymous
June 08, 2015
What worked for me was switching from a USB 3.0 bootable drive to a USB 2.0 bootable drive. Older laptop with only USB2.0 ports. doesn't make sense to me but who am I to question the driver gods.
Anonymous
June 14, 2015
Thanks a bunch removing the SD card did the trick!
Anonymous
June 16, 2015
We used to experience an issue “couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one” while installing an Windows operating system on physical servers, Please see the fix for this issue.

Step --

Use Rufus tool to recreate USB stick for Windows 2012 R2 using FAT32 instead of NTFS (because usb-stick for installing Windows 2012 R2 seems to need a MBR partition table (not GPT), otherwise the installation gets confused and prints something like "Couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one", although the partitions were created)

https://rufus.akeo.ie/downloads/
Anonymous
June 18, 2015
Please I Want Something Doesn't Delete my hard disk
Anonymous
June 19, 2015
I tested with USB3 and got the error, when tested USB2- no problem it created the partition and installed windows 8 or 2012.
Anonymous
June 19, 2015
One more...wasn't sure if it made a difference, the USB2 was partitioned with NTFS
Anonymous
June 20, 2015
@Franck
WOW you saved me from going completly insane :-) I was trying to install Win 10 from USB to second SSD (first SSD has Win8.1) I tried everyting, but your solution worked !!

Can't thank you enough !
Anonymous
June 20, 2015
Switching from a USB3.0 to USB2.0 thumb drive worked for me.
Anonymous
June 20, 2015
Took the SD card issue one step further and disconnecting my CD drive worked for me
Anonymous
June 22, 2015
Going from USB 3.0 to 2.0 worked. Also, enabling AHCI mode in BIOS (under SATA configuration for Dell)
Anonymous
June 25, 2015
thanx
Anonymous
June 28, 2015
thanks buddy i having two hdd on my pc i getting same error then i remove my one hdd now i can installed succesfully
Anonymous
June 29, 2015
Just change your usb from 3 to 2
Anonymous
June 29, 2015
Tried just about everything to clean install W10 10130 x86 instead of W10 10130 x64
Farting around for 3 hours with Unallocated, blank HDD, single Partition HDD and a restored W7 Clean Install Image. No permutations worked
Went to check IDE/AHCI in BIOS, I don't have that option
Didn't change anything in BIOS. Exited and made one last try and it's doing it.
Weird

(Compaq CQ61 2009 Originally W7 x64)

Just need the RTM upgrade to mess it all up again now :-)
Anonymous
July 01, 2015
I was trying to install Windows 8 using DVD. Did not find ahcp or what ever in bios tried to format delete my partition and recreate it but nothing worked.

Finally disk part made it.

Actually I don't want to lost my data since I have only one hdd and too much data. So it was hard to backup all

I still want to know if there is any way to install Windows 8 without formatting your whole hdd.
Anonymous
July 05, 2015
Greatly appreciate this thread!
Anonymous
July 09, 2015
I had this problem booting off a USB. I finally got around it by selecting the formatted drive I wanted windows installed on before the USB in the boot menu. Hope this helps
Anonymous
July 11, 2015
Thank you so much! Works like a charm.
Anonymous
July 20, 2015
Delete the boot drive and click create partition again.
Anonymous
July 20, 2015
Thanks
Anonymous
July 25, 2015
( Maniacal Laughter )
I have been working three days straight on this problem. This simple task in command prompt solved it.
Anonymous
July 29, 2015
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Anonymous
July 29, 2015
Found that if you have a hybrid disk, you have to clean both the disk 0 (HD) and disk 1 (SSD) portions. Once I did that, then Bob's your uncle :-)
Anonymous
July 30, 2015
Thanks SirPercard. Followed your instructions on cleaning both disk 0 and disk 1 and it worked perfectly. Just a word of advice though--- if you see a disk 2 and you're using a bootable USB as your installation device... don't clean disk 2. It's your USB.

Works great. Just remember to save your PC's drivers.
Anonymous
July 30, 2015
This article solved my problem! Thank you very much!
Anonymous
July 30, 2015
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Anonymous
July 31, 2015
I have found a fairly simple solution. (This if for people who are installing via USB)

1. Go into your bios and set the HDD that you want to install as the very first boot device. Save and restart.

2. Manually access your boot loader when bios starts. From here select your USB to boot with.

3. Proceed normally with the install.

It seems that the partition manager in the windows installation gets confused when when it detects a USB that has a higher boot priority then the HDD you're installing on. It thinks the USB is the system partition. By setting the HDD to the first booting device, it no longer looks at the USB as a boot device.

This would also explain why the remove USB key while creating the partitions work. By removing the USB, it no longer sees it and so it skips to the next bootable device to look for the windows system partition. When it doesn't find one, it will now device to create it on its own.

Hope this helps some of you. It took a few hours of sleep out of mine.
Anonymous
August 03, 2015
Thanks for the the tips . Problem solved
Anonymous
August 05, 2015
The key to this and even with Windows 10 is the following. Run the commands on this post, this will clear everything on that disk. The next thing is to make sure your BIOS boot order also has this drive as first in boot order. The two things and you should be good. I also unplugged any extra external USB drives but don't think that actually mattered.
Anonymous
August 07, 2015
It worked for. IMPORTANT: no need for clean if you want to retain your data. All you've to do is to make the partition active in which you want to install windows.
Anonymous
August 08, 2015
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Anonymous
August 08, 2015
If you are installing Windows from USB, remove all the other USB devices except your keyboard (and the USB stick). Also, there is a known issue with USB sticks larger than 4GB when installing Windows...
Anonymous
August 09, 2015
I had to unplug every other HDD and optical drive to solve this problem, too. My computer consists of an Abit AB9 Pro motherboard, which has three onboard SATA controllers. I had an SSD on one, 5 4TB hard drives on the second (working as a W8.1 storage spaces RAID) and three optical drives on the third. It was running W8.1 happily, when the SSD failed (this confirmed by connecting it to another PC, which couldn't access it at all).

When I replaced the SSD and tried to reinstall Windows, I got this error. Disabling the other two SATA controllers in the BIOS did not cure it. I also had a USB stick inserted during the CD boot process, to load the driver for the SATA controller that the SSD was connected to, and wondered if this was causing the problem.

Long story short - I had to unplug every single SATA device except the SSD, and pull the USB stick after the W10 installer had loaded the driver, before it would work.
Anonymous
August 11, 2015
Thanks for the Clean and Clear Steps ,,,, It works 100%
Anonymous
August 12, 2015
Just used this for Windows 10 and it worked as well. Thanks.
Anonymous
August 15, 2015
USB3.0 disk would not work so after much trial and error, tried an old usb 2.0 drive at 8gb and worked fine. Thanks guys. A definite "what the heck moment".
Anonymous
August 15, 2015
Great! It worked for me
Anonymous
August 20, 2015
Removing the SD worked for me, thanks
Anonymous
August 24, 2015
Dell Opti 9020 - Was installing from a Win 8.1. USB Key. Tried disabled SMART, turning on ACHI, and doing the DiskPart trick - none of it worked. I had to install from CD, then it worked perfectly.
Anonymous
August 26, 2015
Boot and install from USB3 didn't work. Changed to USB2.0 and voila.
Anonymous
August 29, 2015
if your computer supports booting to your install media (usb) via UEFI. do that. don't legacy boot off your usb drive.

fixed it for me, didn't have to do anything else.
Anonymous
August 30, 2015
Actually this wasn't working for me. I have OS X Yosemite running on this PC as well, so I unplugged every hard drive except the one getting Windows 10, formatted the drive and it installed without an issue!
Anonymous
September 01, 2015
Thank you
Anonymous
September 03, 2015
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Anonymous
September 03, 2015
Quite a few hours wasted ! The issue was in USB3. When the same setup was done from USB2 - everything worked.
Anonymous
September 04, 2015
it has failed to work !
Anonymous
September 06, 2015
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Anonymous
September 06, 2015
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Anonymous
September 08, 2015
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Anonymous
September 09, 2015
Perfect, thanks for this post. This fixed my issue.
Anonymous
September 09, 2015
I had no microSD, but I also disabled SCSI controller on BIOS and it worked.
Anonymous
September 09, 2015
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Anonymous
September 10, 2015
Danma_'s resolution fixed my issue. Thanks
Anonymous
September 11, 2015
Awesome. I panicked a little, but your solution worked perfectly. Thank you!
Anonymous
September 16, 2015
please i tried installing a new Windows but the entire operating system broke down till now am unable to use my machine
Anonymous
September 18, 2015
I used the usb 2.0 instead of 3.0, and this has helped
Anonymous
September 19, 2015
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Anonymous
September 22, 2015
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Anonymous
September 26, 2015
I was using a single HDD partitioned with GParted. I set up my partitions so nicely on GPT, then got this error. To fix it (well, I guess we'll see...it's installing now), I deleted the partition I wanted to install on, Then created a new one with the remaining space. It seems that Windows wanted to create several extra partitions (a recovery, and something else), and I had the entire space partitioned out. It then made the main OS partition, and some extra ones that it wanted in the new free space, and it's installing now. So much for a pretty partition map...
Anonymous
September 28, 2015
sorry for taking long guys......I have attempted to delete the partition1 but it does not give me the option to delete it since the "Delete'" tab is grey out, even the "Format" is grey out.
Anonymous
September 30, 2015
Sometimes it occurs due to USB3. It seems windows bootloader dont like USB 3. So I tried with USB 2 and it works. I also tried to unplug the USB 3 during partition and after refreashing i plug it again, it works!
Anonymous
October 01, 2015
I encountered the same issue, and the only way to do this is to delete the primary partition. When you delete the primary partition, which is usually an extra space, and not the partition you are going to install Windows on, you will be able to proceed. Simply click on delete on the primary partition with the lowest amount of space, and you should only have one partition left so you could install windows. I hope this helps!
Anonymous
October 06, 2015
Worked for me. Thx very much :) Cheers!
Anonymous
October 07, 2015
i tried but its not working for me
Anonymous
October 09, 2015
Thank you so much. I removed the sd card and it working fine.
Anonymous
October 09, 2015
Thank you so much. I removed the sd card and it working fine.
Anonymous
October 14, 2015
USB 3.0 cann't boot .
same problem.
setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition usb install.
Anonymous
October 15, 2015

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Anonymous
October 18, 2015
Thanks a lot for this post, I had a feeling that it could be the SD card I had with Linux Live installed on it. Had my 8GB SDHC Card plugged into my laptop whilst trying to install Windows 10. Interesting that there's still this issue with it. Unpluged my SDHC card, rebooted the installation and it installed fine on my 840 EVO.
Anonymous
October 19, 2015
I was having this problem when installing Windows 7 from a bootable USB. Was able to get past it by unplugging the USB stick once I was at the Choose Destination screen, then clicking refresh, then plugging the USB stick back in and clicking refresh again.

Was then able to click "Next" and have it install to the HDD as expected.
Anonymous
October 19, 2015
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Anonymous
October 21, 2015
If the above procedures didn't work. just unplug your usb and plug to front usb port of your cpu.
Anonymous
October 21, 2015
What a stupid problem!
Whatever I tried, including DISKPART procedure, or BIOS swaping, taking usb out in several moments of installing... nothing helped.

USB Kingstone simple doesn't do it. It is not meant for bootable purposes (it says like that on their official website).
Anonymous
October 21, 2015
Finnaly i took another usb and solved the problem!
Anonymous
October 25, 2015
THIS WORKED FOR ME
Tried every single step, over and over again, nothing worked. My HP Elitebook just wouldn't install via USB.

Decided to use a DVD and everything installed immediately.

Obviously had something to do with USB 3.0 stick on an older computer, if I had a USB 2.0 I would have tried that, but since I didn't, went the DVD route and now I'm up and running.
Anonymous
October 26, 2015
Thanks, that works for me but if it was possible to specify partition size it would be better
Anonymous
October 27, 2015
I try to install the is on c drive , if I perform this operation I doubt about I lost my other drives data... ??
Anonymous
November 01, 2015
Thanks.... It was working for me.
Anonymous
November 11, 2015
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Anonymous
November 24, 2015
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Anonymous
December 01, 2015
Thank you!!! That worked so well very :)
Anonymous
December 02, 2015
This works for Win 10 also
Anonymous
December 05, 2015
i made changes in bios setting for the hardisk ..and it worked

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